What Can't You Find On The Internet?

there is one goofy tv commercial actor I don’t know the name of... he was in a credit card commercial that took place in an airport, with him bragging to his colleague that he knows where in the airport to find a three prong plug... he looks kinda like a really dumb Harrison Ford. I don’t know why I care about this.

I don’t know why I care about this.

The best kind of questions for this thread!

a free audio file converter (specifically FLAC >>> AIFF for playing lossless music on iTunes) that doesn't strip the files of metadata in the conversion process (?)

does fre:ac strip metadata?

no it does not ! thank you.

XLD doesn't strip data also.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/

does lag∞n have a car thread? or do i just want him to have a car thread? either way, what's the best general car advice thread? my car was recently totaled and i've narrowed down my used car options to THREE.

Just start a new thread on I Love Cars and cross your fingers for the SNA gods to shine a light on you

Thanking you

video footage of tyrone hill as bandleader on the TV show "barbeque with bobby seale"

I feel like this happens more and more. Really basic stuff that I'm positive some nerdling enthusiast out there has written a loving set of linked pages about in, like, 2004, but which the search engines of 2020 cannot find.

How did people train dogs in the early modern period, or the middle ages? In fact, at any time before WWI? No idea. I can't find it.

There's tons of this kind of thing. I feel like the web used to be MORE searchable/available/transparent somehow.

The transformation of search engines to commercial money machines has a lot to do with it. Google and the likes are so utterly useless nowadays, it's criminal. They don't search for you any more, they throw up links/adds/sponsored content the algorithm thinks you want/need when in fact you don't. Is there one search engine still that actually does what it should be doing?

yeah i've complained about this like six times on threads like this one. even sticking words in quotation marks doesn't always work any more. remember when finding a link in Google meant that the word you searched for was actually on that page and not merely imagined by Google? ughghhhhhhhh.

yeah i get pretty infuriated when i search a term and get a list of irrelevant google results that dont include one of the key words, and google generously gives me the option to search again with results that "must include [key word in the term is was searching]". Like yeah, no shit google, I want my search to include that word, thats why i fuckin typed it ya dingus

Google search is an absolute shitshow

You can even turn off ads in DDG, I see no reason not to have that as your default search engine

yeah i get pretty infuriated when i search a term and get a list of irrelevant google results that dont include one of the key words

You can even turn off ads in DDG, I see no reason not to have that as your default search engine

I use DDG as my default, but if I'm trying to find something a bit trickier to pin down, google is almost always better. As Alba suggests, I think more than anything it's a "too much irrelevant and useless shit on the internet" problem.

speaking of pinning things down, Google returns an astounding number of useless Pinterest pages for many, many of my searches.

-site:pinterest.com to exclude that shot

For some searches overwhelmed by guff, I sometimes throw reddit into the search terms to at least nudge it towards text written by a human.

To be fair to google, a shitload of information that was around in 2004 will no longer be there. Geocities, myspace, other defunct blogging platforms, unrenewed personal domains and sites. The barrier to publishing on the internet is low, but it's not well designed for data persistence.

Yeah Alba I do that, but surely 'the best search engine in the world' shouldn't require a lot of nerdy operators in the search in order to return high-quality results. Most of Pinterest is search spam as far as I can tell. A few relevant-ish images pinned to the top of a page and then thousands of referral links for the rest of it. Come to think of it, that's what most pages on the internet are now, though.

many former google SEO employees now work elsewhere, one of the reasons why Pinterest is seeded so high in their searches as they know how the algo is gamed.

yeah they're a sharp bunch

"gulbashu" wayward leftfield laotian hip-hop used to be on youtube, odd video of grotesque floating cgi heads, google returns zero results

I want to use this recording of Marcus Garvey from 1929 in my 1929 mix.
Only is it him? Is it from 1929? The original (very dubious) source (a badly labelled youtube video) is gone from the internet, the account deleted.
I can find no record of a recording from 1929 at all, but when I google these do seem to be his words.

https://vocaroo.com/1eqvZzf2Hp7J

Can anyone help?

The recording quality is too good, maybe? And can I hear organ in the background towards the end?

I think it might be Marcus Garvey JR.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJd7K_yVKog

so, the chorus of this song, where they go "merry Christmas, he gunned his family down....." -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP2YV8OfAWs

the sing-songy melody is the same melody I used to hear during those stupid birthday songs at restaurants - "happy happy birthday/from the Chili's crew", etc. but like...I sincerely doubt that's where Macabre got it from, esp not for a Christmas song.

so am trying to figure out where that melody originated from, and failing big time. did it really originate as an alternative birthday song melody or did (as I suspect) a buncha chains ripoff another public domain melody and I just can't figure out what the fuck it is?

wait. are you absolutely sure there is a melody in there?

lol briefly, yes, in between the shrieks

also i was excited that i had answer :((((((((((

geir up in here

lol

it's right on the the tip of my tongue though...I feel like I recognize it from a kids' song along the lines of "On Top Of Spaghetti"...the last part I'm hearing with the set-up lyric "And this is what he said—"

like a silly growing-litany song

This is almost certainly not it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYgOlqinH7A

What I’m thinking of is one of those songs the joke of which is the repetition of that short, insidious melody...like it keeps implying a resolution but just goes over and over like that with wackier developments in each verse

Hadrian, I know this one from a cassette called Wee Sing Silly Songs, where it's a song about a guy with long whiskers:

Oh, they're always in the way
The cows eat them for hay
They hide the dirt on Daddy's shirt,
They're always in the way

... but I think it's also used, yeah, for schoolyard rhymes where just when it seems like it would be about to turn into a swear, the next word opens up a new stanza....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Susie#:~:text=%22Miss%20Susie%20had%20a%20steamboat,an%20innocuous%20word%20or%20phrase.

That’s it!!!

:D

aaarrgh but it’s not though! I just listened again to Neanderthal’s song...but it’s exactly in that neighborhood

isn't it just "99 bottles of beer" ?

Similar but rhythmically different.

to me sounds like a melodically flattened variant of 'The Noble Duke of York':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzV5zDnK3G4

*it sounds

Wow it does!

That's not the "proper" tune to the Grand Old Duke Of York though ... sounds like it's been given the same treatment as Neanderthal's original tune!
sounds most similar to 99 bottles of beer to me, rhythm differences notwithstanding.

i think it matches one of the several tunes of "i had a little turtle" actually