Google was trying to sell me a matching algorithm as a service and now everything google makes that uses item matching (youtube, cards) is royally fucked.

cloud.google.com/solutions/real…
i get weirdly specific shit like "here's twenty articles on how to cook dishes with vodka" or "have a slurry of videos of animals that are mentally disabled or have eaten drugs" yeah well done googal
cards doesn't even work, it's just fucked, you get the random, worst results, most of the time the feed isn't even populated.
YouTube: "I bet you're really jonesing for a lot of news videos from exactly 3 years ago"
"you've watched one noel miller video. now your feed is only noel miller videos forever"
Me: I stopped watching TV because it was made up entirely of re-runs
YouTube: (obviously not listening) I hear you love re-runs
Google tech sales team: "Would you like to buy this"

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