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Jimmy Swaggart, TV Evangelitst, Dies at 90

Ed Nielson

Ed Nielson

I used to watch his stuff for laughs, I even have a recording somewhere of his “I have sinned” episode. Wasn’t til later I learned stations got paid to show that stuff, and that’s why they were on.
 
R.D.P. said:
From what I've been hearing, SBN will carry on.

Dan <><
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Of course they are, watching them today after the news broke, they're doing their Bible-thon & unsurprisingly many are showing their love donating in honor of Jimmy. They've been replaying alongside this the moment Donnie Swaggart broke the news as well as a tribute montage to him.
 
Ed Nielson said:
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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who became a household name amassing an enormous following and multimillion-dollar ministry only to be undone by his penchant for prostitutes, has died. Swaggart died de...
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Someone at Google appears to not be a fan of Swaggart. At least right now, if you search his name using an older browser User-Agent string to access Google's legacy search results format, you get the following:
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That's with "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0" as the User-Agent string.

The easter egg also appears when using the really old Google search interface, which is provided when JavaScript is disabled and your User-Agent is set to the thoroughly antiquated "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)". In that case, the result is:
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Amusingly enough, this isn't appearing when viewing Google's search results in their modern/current format (by using a modern User-Agent string). I guess whomever decided to make this commentary wasn't interested in too large an audience and too many complaints.

(FYI: I always have Firefox set to send the second User-Agent above, with JavaScript disabled, when using google.com. Otherwise, I never would have noticed this.)
 
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yeoldeschool said:
Someone at Google appears to not be a fan of Swaggart. At least right now, if you search his name using an older browser User-Agent string to access Google's legacy search results format, you get the following:
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That's with "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0" as the User-Agent string.

The easter egg also appears when using the really old Google search interface, which is provided when JavaScript is disabled and your User-Agent is set to the thoroughly antiquated "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)". In that case, the result is:
View attachment 9513

Amusingly enough, this isn't appearing when viewing Google's search results in their modern/current format (by using a modern User-Agent string). I guess whomever decided to make this commentary wasn't interested in too large an audience and too many complaints.

(FYI: I always have Firefox set to send the second User-Agent above, with JavaScript disabled, when using google.com. Otherwise, I never would have noticed this.)
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Google is a shadow of what it used to be. It has basically been taken over by AI.

I know you know this, but there are other search engines, probably not matching Google's capabilities, but useful nonetheless. There is DuckDuckGo, as well as Yandex, though I am a bit averse to using Russian websites (which Yandex is) because of the possibility of introducing unwanted and even malevolent cookies and malware.
 
Saw that montage on SBN (a low-power TV station that transmits just a block away from me carries it), was amused that one of the songs they used was the same one that closed his tearful confession episode.
 
IM42A said:
Google is a shadow of what it used to be. It has basically been taken over by AI.
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That search result was not AI. It was somebody with access to core systems at Google who knew about the news and thought he would be mischievous with users on one of its lesser traveled portals. (Unless you were packing this in as an implication with the first thing you said.)

I know you know this, but there are other search engines, probably not matching Google's capabilities, but useful nonetheless. There is DuckDuckGo, as well as Yandex, though I am a bit averse to using Russian websites (which Yandex is) because of the possibility of introducing unwanted and even malevolent cookies and malware.
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For algorithmic search quality reasons, Google is still my preferred choice when doing technical subject searches. Otherwise, yes, I prefer alternatives like the two you mentioned.
 
yeoldeschool said:
That search result was not AI. It was somebody with access to core systems at Google who knew about the news and thought he would be mischievous with users on one of its lesser traveled portals. (Unless you were packing this in as an implication with the first thing you said.)
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I wasn't. I assume you're referring to the "666 months ago" and the bizarre website about Rev Swaggart's death being prophesied.

For algorithmic search quality reasons, Google is still my preferred choice when doing technical subject searches. Otherwise, yes, I prefer alternatives like the two you mentioned.
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Yes, overall, Google's algorithms are unsurpassed. I've just been dismayed in recent years by not being able to find many, many things you'd think would pop up, and which I know are out there based on past experience.
 
Voicetrack of Reason said:
The programming on WJYM sounds straight outta 1975. It's hard to believe it's sustainable 50 years later
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I mentioned WJYM in the other Swaggart thread. When he took it over in 1978 or so it sounded like a station south of the Mason-Dixon line, not Toledo, though it had some local elements. Now, just the Sonlife radio-TV simulcast without a person in sight
 
I haven't commented on his death yet as I needed to think about my response. I pray that he repented fully of his scandals privately with God, and that he crossed over into Heaven. Regardless, Swaggart was a major influence on Christianity in the late 20th century, and there are plenty of Americans who discovered Jesus through his program and ministry.
May he RIP and condolences to Donnie and his family.
 
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I wasn't. I assume you're referring to the "666 months ago" and the bizarre website about Rev Swaggart's death being prophesied.
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Never heard about a prophecy or strange web sites. Google's "666 months ago" prank just struck me as something an employee stuffed into searches for Swaggart on account of his notoriety for his past, repeated, scandalous behaviors and lavish lifestyle, which many saw as exploitative of his followers. I believe the huckster preacher character Jimmy Lee Farnsworth in "Fletch Lives" (1989) was meant as a direct parody of Jimmy (Lee) Swaggart.

Yes, overall, Google's algorithms are unsurpassed. I've just been dismayed in recent years by not being able to find many, many things you'd think would pop up, and which I know are out there based on past experience.
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Same here. Google's true search results are essentially filtered behind years of accumulated censorship algorithms and regexps. There is a great deal of information on this subject at resources like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google and especially https://www.zachvorhies.com/, the latter of whom was an insider and whistleblower.

It's unfortunate. Google showed you almost completely unfiltered results up to around 2011-2013. Then, bit by bit, that changed. On the early internet, you had to repeat the same search across multiple engines to find everything -- Altavista, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Magellan, Hotbot, Yahoo, Webcrawler, ad infinitum. It's seems that we're now returning to that model, only with a lot fewer alternatives to choose from.
 
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I haven't commented on his death yet as I needed to think about my response. I pray that he repented fully of his scandals privately with God, and that he crossed over into Heaven. Regardless, Swaggart was a major influence on Christianity in the late 20th century, and there are plenty of Americans who discovered Jesus through his program and ministry.
May he RIP and condolences to Donnie and his family.
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All things considered, I think this is a perfectly thought-out sentiment and post.
 


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