At work, we have this tradition of naming our video call channels with random emojis.
Yesterday, I named it 🎍 and a colleague asked what that emoji is supposed to be.
The thing is, I had this conversation with another colleague before, when I chose that same emoji some months ago.
In the emoji selector, it’s called “pine decoration”, so as Firefox readily told me, I had searched for those exact words before, in this case on Qwant, not Google.
So, I directly opened that search result link from the browser history and the first page of search results just showed random Etsy links and such. For now, it still looks the same: https://www.qwant.com/?q=pine+decoration&t=web
When I searched it a few months ago, I was amazed that the first link, along with the whole inline-Wikipedia-blurb, was the relevant result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu
(This was also still in my browser history.)
I don’t need to be amazed every time, but fuck me, it feels like the internet is having Alzheimer’s.
At work, we have this tradition of naming our video call channels with random emojis.
Yesterday, I named it 🎍 and a colleague asked what that emoji is supposed to be.
The thing is, I had this conversation with another colleague before, when I chose that same emoji some months ago.
In the emoji selector, it’s called “pine decoration”, so as Firefox readily told me, I had searched for those exact words before, in this case on Qwant, not Google.
So, I directly opened that search result link from the browser history and the first page of search results just showed random Etsy links and such. For now, it still looks the same: https://www.qwant.com/?q=pine+decoration&t=web
When I searched it a few months ago, I was amazed that the first link, along with the whole inline-Wikipedia-blurb, was the relevant result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu
(This was also still in my browser history.)
I don’t need to be amazed every time, but fuck me, it feels like the internet is having Alzheimer’s.