Daily Tech News 20 May 20206

Top Story

Google search is dead, says... Google. (Tech Crunch)

Professor Plum in the library with a lead pipe?

Or just Google being Google.

Anyway, the plan is, now that Google has killed its premier product through years of malign neglect, to force you into an AI "experience" any time you want to look something up.

One small problem: I already have Grok for that, and it doesn't try to sell me stuff I don't want, and most of the time it doesn't like to me either.

The secondary is problem is that behind the scenes Grok is using search engines like Google to pull related data together to answer your query. You can even watch it doing that - if you have SuperGrok (my company pays for it because it saves a lot of time we used to spend digging through Stack Overflow) you can watch it spin up three different agents that perform different searches and argue about the correct answer - and oftentimes even get it right.

So the question is, if the underlying search engines go away, what happens to the AI experience? Does it go the way of the nudged quanta in the single data drawer among the galaxy of indexes of indexes?

Tech News

Lenovo has a new all-in-one desktop PC that is a serviceable replacement to my Dell model from 2017. (Notebook Check)

It has a Panther Lake 358H - twice as fast as my old Ryzen 1700, integrated B390 graphics - comparable to the Dell's dedicated Radeon 580, a 32" 4k 165Hz OLED panel - compared to the 27" 4k 60Hz IPS panel in the Dell, 32GB of soldered RAM, and two M.2 slots.

Not present: Ethernet. You can hang a dongle off one of the USB ports but it's a bit of a nuisance.
Microsoft has announced its new lineup of Surface laptops, starting at $1299 with 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)

Forgivable - maybe - at the $449 of the Chuwi model we looked at recently, or with the $599 MacBook Neo which actually works with 8GB of RAM. At $1299 and running Windows 11, no.
Microsoft has announced its new operating system, available now. (ZDNet)

For suitably small values of "its", "new", and "available".

Azure Linux 4.0 is based on RedHat's Fedora 40, and you can download the source code on GitHub. There is no downloadable build to be found anywhere.
314 NPM packages were just compromised. (SafeDep)

Or maybe 317; the headline and article disagree on the exact number.
Leaked images have surfaced of Intel's Crescent Lake AI graphics card. (WCCFTech)

It uses an Xe3P chip - the one that is not coming to your desktop, ever - and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory rather than the usual GDDR6 or GDDR7.

That allows more and cheaper memory, but does limit bandwidth. Given the sheer size of the grid for the chip and the specific memory layout, I wonder if they went for a 640 bit wide bus to compensate for the slower clock speed.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I am shooketh.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 04:31 AM (1QT7n)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:32 AM (6wpGE)

3 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 04:32 AM (1QT7n)

4 Disclaimer: I am shooketh.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

You are Pixy Misa!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:32 AM (6wpGE)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

6 >>>Google has killed its premier product through years of malign neglect, to force you into an AI "experience" any time you want to look something up

Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this the Top Story. I have been all OCD about it.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:33 AM (6wpGE)

7 Hello , all

Of you're not familiar with it and are a Christian and have an interest a , I thought this was a wonderful story of a Coptic Christian saint, Moses the Black.:

https://tinyurl.com/46knvtk7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2026 04:37 AM (lQ+/f)

8 I really liked The Cars in .late 70s. Still play videos occasionally

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

9 me OCDing on yesterday's tech thread:

22 The AI Overview on google search just will not shut up. I was adding -ai to the end of a string of terms in a search field but that seems to have quit working. Adding (hide -ai overview) worked just now; fingers crossed.
Posted by: m at May 19, 2026 05:25 AM (6wpGE)

Maybe they will give us a workaround. Like, click on some button. Which will be an extra step, which will encourage use of their AI as default, but which will be something.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:38 AM (6wpGE)

10 The Cars - Shake It Up

Such good, clean fun!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 04:44 AM (6wpGE)

11 Re: M$ Azure
So, just as Gates bought/stole his operating system, M$ is now adopting the work of open source developers.

Thoughts on how long it takes for M$ to bork this up?

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 04:46 AM (1QT7n)

12 nudged quanta

https://ziply.pk/MUrRXs

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 04:53 AM (1QT7n)

13 New Cut Jib Speaks yesterday, something to listen to on a long commute

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0)

14 https://tinyurl.com/bddsahc9
And TJM's Sam Peckinpah video
Like and Hype please

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 04:58 AM (Ia/+0)

15 Mornin'

youtu.be/eo683EaXFEg

I think I'll take a walk. Will be too hot later and then the weather gets sporty.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 20, 2026 05:03 AM (sAmhv)

16
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 20, 2026 05:07 AM (AMvSw)

17 Puddleglum, have a good one!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:08 AM (6wpGE)

18 Oh! Good news! Oregon's gas tax/registration fee increase was shot down, under 2/3 reporting but over 4/5 a resounding No. The story is too complicated for me to follow, but getting it passed by the state legislature was the signature achievement of Gov. Tina Kotek (D), and she pulled out every dirty trick in the book to try to keep canvassers from getting it put in front of the voters as a ballot referendum. She is such a sneaky-sneaky, she somehow got away with changing a Nov. referendum against the bill into a May ballot measure for it, but that plainly didn't help.

This means that Kotek is now a big fat loser going into a Nov. rematch against state senator Christine Drazan (R), who won the nomination for Gov. with only a plurality of primary votes (Oregon doesn't do runoffs for party nominees). This does make the governor contest more competitive, but Motor Voter and the Magic Mail-Ins (I saw them open for X at Y in Z) create a nigh-insurmountable Margin Of Fraud.

Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 05:09 AM (Sy6m/)

19 Maybe only high 80s today here in se Pa

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)

20 Is the irritating redirect to a spammy ad whenever you click "Continue" on this site a bug or a feature?

Posted by: Hal1959 at May 20, 2026 05:11 AM (cJUX8)

21 Yesterday, my out of town bride asked me to water her flower pots in the morning. Does 5 AM qualify? Because thats the route I took.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:12 AM (bvwOM)

22 20 Is the irritating redirect to a spammy ad whenever you click "Continue" on this site a bug or a feature?
Posted by: Hal1959 at May 20, 2026 05:11 AM (cJUX

Press "Comments"?

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:13 AM (6wpGE)

23 Thoughts on how long it takes for M$ to bork this up?
Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 04:46 AM (1QT7n)
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*jumps up and down* I know! I know!

The minute they started.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:15 AM (bvwOM)

24 22 20 Is the irritating redirect to a spammy ad whenever you click "Continue" on this site a bug or a feature?
Posted by: Hal1959 at May 20, 2026 05:11 AM (cJUX

Press "Comments"?
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:13 AM (6wpGE)

... which is not an answer to your question but is perhaps a solution to the problem.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:16 AM (6wpGE)

25 Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova. Have there ever been two more mismatched people, she gorgeous and he, Ric Ocasek.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:17 AM (bvwOM)

26 PixyMagic (or something) removed the smiley face when I reposted (at comment 24) the text that contained it (at comment 22)!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:18 AM (6wpGE)

27 Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:12 AM (bvwOM)

Your "out of town bride". Do you have an in town bride and and out of town bride?😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2026 05:19 AM (AQXU4)

28 Now that the GOP is going to be down one Uniparty Senator and one crazy House member, after last night, will the GOP Senate caucus learn anything?

Magic Eight Ball seems to be choking with laughter and cannot presently answer me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:21 AM (bvwOM)

29 26 PixyMagic (or something) removed the smiley face when I reposted (at comment 24) the text that contained it (at comment 22)!
****

It is something in the code that removes some formatting when quoting, I think.

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 05:23 AM (1QT7n)

30 29 26 PixyMagic (or something) removed the smiley face when I reposted (at comment 24) the text that contained it (at comment 22)!
****

It is something in the code that removes some formatting when quoting, I think.
Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 05:23 AM (1QT7n)

Super cool.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:23 AM (6wpGE)

31 Is the irritating redirect to a spammy ad whenever you click "Continue" on this site a bug or a feature?

Moose at door should have told you to just click on 'comments'.

Also, good morning everyone.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 20, 2026 05:24 AM (Q/FnY)

32 So this was a "God incident" yesterday. They are doing a lot of construction at the supermarket so it is very busy with cars. I needed to park further away and I was parked right next to a car with a sticker on that side which said, "Jesus lives in my heart" in Spanish.

It sure beats the heck out of "Eff Trump". I saw that last week. Why on earth would you want to put that on your car? I didn't like Biden but I didn't ride around with " F Biden" decals in my car.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2026 05:25 AM (RDpV/)

33 Well that tears it then. Time to start training the brain to type in "Startpage" instead of "Google".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 20, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW)

34 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ satellites out there on this Woden's Day!

Who is the girl in the Cars video? She looks something like Bernadette Peters, but, you know, actually cute and sexy.

Oh, okay, Bernadette was cute in her own way and in her own day. Say, the '70s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:27 AM (wzUl9)

35 Well that tears it then. Time to start training the brain to type in "Startpage" instead of "Google".
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 20, 2026

***
Qwant is the way

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:28 AM (wzUl9)

36 Adding to the victory in Kentucky, Trump endorsed Andy Barr beat McConnell staffer Daniel Cameron in the primary to succeed the Turtle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:28 AM (XCCeP)

37 On the topic of bumper-borne worldviews, I once converted a friendly acquaintance into a non-friendly acquaintance by pointing out that the concept of Karma is indeed, at its core, a dogma.

It could also have been me saying that Phish is astonishingly mediocre. Maybe. Who knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 20, 2026 05:28 AM (Ot/FD)

38 11 Re: M$ Azure
Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 04:46 AM (1QT7n)

As far as I can see from my family tree:
No relation.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:28 AM (6wpGE)

39 @32/FenelonSpoke: "Why on earth would you want to put that on your car?"

2 Timothy, Chapter 3, the first seven verses.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 20, 2026 05:31 AM (O7YUW)

40 Maybe only high 80s today here in se Pa
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026

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I'm staring down the barrel of the same here in Da Swamp. 77 right now, 4:30 am, and I don't wanna know the heat index. Rain expected just about every day through Memorial Day.

Time for the old athletic shirt instead of the old polo shirt when I work out, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:32 AM (wzUl9)

41 @35/Wolfus: "Qwant is the way"

I'll give that a spin too, thanks Wolfus!

How are the furry meatloaves doing this morning?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 20, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

42 18 Motor Voter and the Magic Mail-Ins (I saw them open for X at Y in Z)
Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 05:09 AM (Sy6m/)

heh

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:32 AM (6wpGE)

43 Market reports say tankers are moving today through the Strait of Hormuz unmolested.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:33 AM (s5hGr)

44 20 Is the irritating redirect to a spammy ad whenever you click "Continue" on this site a bug or a feature?
Posted by: Hal1959
****

A bug. Get out of the ad by reloading the page. Or just hit the comments link.

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 05:34 AM (1QT7n)

45 To me, Ken Paxton looks like an actor; cannot place him; sidekick in a cop show? Halp.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE)

46 26 PixyMagic (or something) removed the smiley face when I reposted (at comment 24) the text that contained it (at comment 22)!
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:18 AM (6wpGE)

I think what happened is that the smiley was generated by the 8 and ) from the hash, and the smiley was not copyable; but also the 8 and ) were not there anymore to be copied either, so it was also not generated.

Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (Sy6m/)

47 The tail end of Von Ryan's Express with Sinatra and Trevor Howard is on Movies! You know, I have never seen the film all the way through. I first read and loved the novel when I was in high school -- not assigned reading, I was never so lucky; on my own -- and have reread it a couple of times since, including during the dark days of the Sniffle Scare. I understand the ending of the film is quite a bit different from that of the novel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)

48 To me, Ken Paxton looks like an actor; cannot place him; sidekick in a cop show? Halp.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026

***
Yeah, I can see him as the lead's career-cop partner, either in uniform or plainclothes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

49 45 To me, Ken Paxton looks like an actor; cannot place him; sidekick in a cop show? Halp.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE)

Got it:

Charles Haid
Officer Andrew Renko
Hill Street Blues

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:39 AM (6wpGE)

50 45 To me, Ken Paxton looks like an actor; cannot place him; sidekick in a cop show? Halp.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE)

Michael Chiklis in The Commish, but with more hair. (Seriously, just get tabs of an image search on each and compare.)

Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 05:39 AM (Sy6m/)

51 @11/clarence: "Thoughts on how long it takes for M$ to bork this up?"

... aaaaaaand it's gone!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 20, 2026 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

52 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:27 AM (wzUl9)
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Grok came up empty, saying the ladies were uncredited in the video, sadly. But it helpfully pointed me to the video for their song "Drive" which had the absolutely spectacular Paulina in it. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:42 AM (wUQJO)

53 50 45 To me, Ken Paxton looks like an actor; cannot place him; sidekick in a cop show? Halp.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE)

Michael Chiklis in The Commish, but with more hair. (Seriously, just get tabs of an image search on each and compare.)
Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 05:39 AM (Sy6m/)

hahahahahaha

No kidding.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:42 AM (6wpGE)

54 To me, Ken Paxton looks like an actor; cannot place him; sidekick in a cop show? Halp.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE)

Got it:

Charles Haid
Officer Andrew Renko
Hill Street Blues
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026

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Not so much the face, but the coloration and the shape of his head and face; yes.

I enjoyed HSB when Heroes & Icons used to run it overnight during the week -- a lot better than I liked Dennis Franz's series NYPD Blue. There was a kind of color and life to HSB and the characters that I didn't get from the later show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9)

55 “ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ”

Romans 10:9

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2026 05:42 AM (rkCBr)

56 Way back in "the old times", I found a good search engine called Northern Light and used it for some time. Then it left the internet. Years later, I found an article about search engines that included the info that Northern Light had gone corporate-only subscription.

https://www.northernlight.com for those who might be interested.

*no involvement with their product*

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 05:43 AM (1QT7n)

57 53 50 45 To me, Ken Paxton looks like an actor; cannot place him; sidekick in a cop show? Halp.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:35 AM (6wpGE)

Michael Chiklis in The Commish, but with more hair. (Seriously, just get tabs of an image search on each and compare.)
Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 05:39 AM (Sy6m/)

hahahahahaha

No kidding.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:42 AM (6wpGE)

It's really stunning.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:44 AM (6wpGE)

58 Finishing cup two of morning coffee. Time to change, stretch, and go work out. Once it's over it'll be over* until Friday, and I can get cleaned up, feed the cats, and then me.

* "A thing is not over until it is over."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

59 25 Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova. Have there ever been two more mismatched people, she gorgeous and he, Ric Ocasek.

........

If I remember correctly, he also cut her out of his will as they were in the process of a divorce when he died.

Posted by: Mollly k. at May 20, 2026 05:46 AM (j/yko)

60 Musk is set to take his first company public since Tesla went public in 2010. The prospectus is set for release on Wednesday for SpaceX.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:47 AM (aq6QB)

61 54 I enjoyed HSB when Heroes & Icons used to run it overnight during the week -- a lot better than I liked Dennis Franz's series NYPD Blue. There was a kind of color and life to HSB and the characters that I didn't get from the later show.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9)

I loved Hill Street Blues.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2026 05:47 AM (6wpGE)

62 Way back in "the old times", I found a good search engine called Northern Light and used it for some time. Then it left the internet. Years later, I found an article about search engines that included the info that Northern Light had gone corporate-only subscription.

https://www.northernlight.com for those who might be interested.

*no involvement with their product*
Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026

***
What was the search engine that used a dog with the concept "Fetch!" as its logo? They actually had TV ads, I think. Not "Ubu," that was the tag credit for a TV production company. ("Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog!" *Arf!*)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

63 I believe you are correct Molly, on his will. IIRC, i think she nursed him through his last illness.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:50 AM (aq6QB)

64 If you're getting the full page ad when clicking on "Continue Reading" you can try to reload the page (hit the circular arrow next to the address bar in your browser). That usually gets rid of the ad for me.

You can also right click on "Continue Reading" and hit "Open in New Tab" and that prevents the ad from loading. If you're on a iPad or iPhone long-press the link until a popup opens and then "Open in New Tab".

Those might work for people who don't want to open the "Comments" link.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 05:50 AM (6ydKt)

65 What was the search engine that used a dog with the concept "Fetch!" as its logo?
****

Dogpile. Arfie.

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 05:51 AM (1QT7n)

66 Von Ryan's Express is one of those movies where you watch it and then realized what a crazy life it was back near the end of WW2. Sinatra was a good actor, but not remembered for his movie roles. I have the DVD and its in my favor pile.

Posted by: Colin at May 20, 2026 05:51 AM (CiQE7)

67 I loved Hill Street Blues.
Posted by: m at May 20, 2026

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Dennis Franz's character Buntz was introduced late in the show's run. He at first seemed to be a a hustler and an unreliable cop, but proved otherwise in an episode where he and another, younger cop were held hostage by a psycho. Buntz psychologically waterboards the psycho and saves himself (and, I think, the other cop). He seems to be fine, to be taking the whole thing in his stride. Then we see him in the bathroom, throwing up. Very powerful stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

68 Von Ryan's Express is one of those movies where you watch it and then realized what a crazy life it was back near the end of WW2. Sinatra was a good actor, but not remembered for his movie roles. I have the DVD and its in my favor pile.
Posted by: Colin at May 20, 2026

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I watched most of The Detective from '68 with Sinatra and Lee Remick last night. Another example of a movie being better than the book, as well as different. A lot of the novel's bones are there, but screenwriter Abby Mann clothed them differently and much more interestingly. Sinatra was very good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

69 If you drink a cup of coffee, you have an empty cup of coffee. But the second you wash that cup, it's no longer an empty cup of coffee, it's just a cup. An empty cup. A clean cup. An unused cup. But not an empty cup of coffee. Or if it is, it's also an empty cup of literally anything. Water. Gasoline. Marbles. Whatever.

...

Hey, maybe Phish isn't all that bad after all....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 20, 2026 05:55 AM (Ot/FD)

70 Re: The Detective, Lee Remick was the Nicole Kidman of her day.

And the movie, in 1968, used the word "gay" interchangeably with "homosexual." Perhaps the former term was in-group slang, and cops picked up on it before the general public did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

71 Here's this nutcase. Democrat running for Congress from TX calls for Zionists to be put In ICE facilities:

https://tinyurl.com/2nm4dk95

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2026 05:56 AM (IYIYn)

72 The Detective from '68 with Sinatra
****

The First Deadly Sin is a 1980 American crime thriller film produced by and starring Frank Sinatra.

Saw this one years ago. Sinatra was really overlooked for his acting.

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 05:57 AM (1QT7n)

73 "nutcase Democrat" seems redundant

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:58 AM (eAwYi)

74 What was the search engine that used a dog with the concept "Fetch!" as its logo? They actually had TV ads, I think. Not "Ubu," that was the tag credit for a TV production company. ("Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog!" *Arf!*)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 20, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

I never heard of it before, but it looks like the metasearch engine Dogpile fits your description:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile

Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 05:58 AM (Sy6m/)

75 Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:58 AM (eAwYi)

Probably, yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2026 05:59 AM (IYIYn)

76 But she is particularly bad. Calling for imprisoning Jews seems like an idea they increasingly like though most don't come right out with it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 20, 2026 05:59 AM (eAwYi)

77 If I remember correctly, he also cut her out of his will as they were in the process of a divorce when he died.
Posted by: Mollly k. at May 20, 2026 05:46 AM (j/yko)

From wiki:

Ocasek was found dead on September 15, 2019, by his estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova, at his New York City townhouse, which they still shared following their separation in 2017.

Porizkova and Ocasek were still in the process of their divorce at the time of his death, but he had disinherited her in a new will, alleging that before his recent surgery she had abandoned him. This required a probate court judge rule on the veracity of the abandonment claims before the remaining estate could be divided. He also disinherited two of his six sons.

In 2021, the dispute between Ocasek's estate and Porizkova was settled; Porizkova said she was granted a third of his estate. While Porizkova would not tell Vanity Fair the precise terms of the settlement, she denied reports that Ocasek was "only worth $5 million" at the time of his death.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 20, 2026 06:02 AM (ExV1e)

78 73 "nutcase Democrat" seems redundant
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Incomplete. Insert northern, southern, Illinois, etc. Oh, wait. Illinois is Nazis.🙃

Posted by: clarence at May 20, 2026 06:02 AM (1QT7n)

79 Ah, The Cars. Ric Ocasek was telling us ugly people that there was hope for us too.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 20, 2026 06:03 AM (+4yJ5)

80 There has to be some kind of deep-deep-state CIA domestic op to discredit the Democratic party and dissolve their cultural relevance. Either direct embeds, or the kind of mind control hypno-suggestion op that gets dudes like Alex Jones frisky.

They can't possibly be this stupid spontaneously.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 20, 2026 06:04 AM (Ot/FD)

81 To Hype a video, I slide right on comments and to Hype it comes up.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2026 06:06 AM (4i2xd)

82 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 20, 2026 06:06 AM (VyBeY)

83 Search Engines: I want Highway 61 back.

See here:
https://tinyurl.com/55az3rkv

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 20, 2026 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

84 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 20, 2026 06:07 AM (2Ez/1)

85 After long and intense scrutiny of human behavior, I have come to the conclusion that people are mostly held back by good culture from being stupid, and it only takes the removal of inhibition for them to race wildly into utter psychotic idiocy of their own accord.

Posted by: SciVo at May 20, 2026 06:07 AM (Sy6m/)

86 I just listened to The Cars "Let's Go" on a YouTube playlist of mine an hour ago.

I kinda liked The Cars in the 80s as a kid, but over the last decade I've grown to appreciate their music a lot more than way back when.

Really good band, and their stuff has only gotten better for me over the years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 06:07 AM (6ydKt)

87 Really good band, and their stuff has only gotten better for me over the years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 20, 2026 06:07 AM (6ydKt)

I'm that way about Tom Petty.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 20, 2026 06:09 AM (Ot/FD)

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