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The internet has become pretty boring, if I\'m being perfectly honest.  Like most things that have been around for a while, you get to the point where if you\'ve seen one thing, you\'ve seen them all.  Part of this is our natural tendency to become desensitized to things over time, but there is another aspect to how it all works that makes this phenomenon even worse.  No matter how creative you might be, this thing makes it incredibly difficult to do anything innovative or new because the odds are if you aren\'t adhering to it you won\'t get noticed anyway.  Of course, I\'m talking about the almighty search algorithm.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gunthrek.com/2021/09/01/living-with-algorithms/