[drkshdw]

Perhaps my googling game is off or out of date but why is every search result now trying to sell me something? I know the google makes money off of ads (hell, my 'job' is paid by google ads) but this ad business is getting ridiculous. I remember not so long ago you could search the google and it would give you answers to your questions without trying to sell you something. Or led you to a website that had information you were looking for. Apparently those days are over.

I've just spent the past 3 hours trying to find out how (or if it's even possible) to adjust the belt tension on my push mower. The first 6 pages are all sites trying to sell me a new belt. Or some other part. Or a new mower all together. All I wanna know is how to make my mower stop turning wheels when I let go of the drive lever. I never did find an answer. Or even come close to one.

And it's not just this. The other day I was trying to find out what makes mushroom popcorn, mushroom popcorn. No, I don't want to buy mushroom popcorn, I want to know what makes it different than butterfly popcorn!

Is anyone else experiencing this? Or do I just not know how to use the google anymore?

And as an added rant, after this 3 hour foray, I found absolutely nothing about this problem. Every result that came up about a belt being changed or a problem with it was for riding mowers. Or Toro mowers. No, I need MTD. Push mower. Self propelled. Rear wheel drive. I was using 8 and 10 words to search and it still wasn't specific enough. I've done all the google tricks in the book to narrow the results and nothing works anymore (*, -, " ", 'or', etc). I miss library books and paper instruction manuals.