Why Google Search is Falling Apart
Why Google Search is Falling Apart
Google's AI may replace traditional websites and content creators leading to potential monopolization and diminishing user experience - Mrwhosetheboss
I’ve started getting those AI responses from Google now and I honestly skip right past them.
I fundamentally don’t trust the information so what’s the point of even reading it?
The AI responses are so incredibly bad.
I searched for a video game walkthrough that has a similar name to a movie, and it GAVE ME THE MOVIE PLOT.
What a shit show.
Well ideally you provide Google the feed to train their llm
Maybe because the person that ran yahoo search into the ground is now responsible for Google search.
Sometimes I forget that google is a searching engine, I've been using DDG for years now! :)
The best thing about ddg is that I can click on any of the result links.
In google I have to skip like the first 3 rows because they are all tracking ads and my pihole blocks them 😁
I can't say I'm liking DDG. The first page gives me the same domain links. Like when I search for "eye washing gifs", the first three links is the same website. Where I'd expect it to give me three separate websites (and combine searches).
It does that for a few searches.
But then again, I'm not even liking Google.
DDG does have its issues like giving me random news articles from my area if it cant find anything relevant...
Thanks for the suggestion. I've gotten fed up with trying to work with Google now. I've given up
Because - and this is a real thing, despite how baffling and utterly, obviously insane it is - the guy who now heads the Google search team is the very same guy who drove Yahoo search into the ground.
This is insane. Idk what google is thinking.
Google: "Well surely, he couldn't tank TWO massive social media engines in one lifetime!"
Granted I’m jaded as fuck from only a decade and a half as a software engineer, but from where I’m standing, it’s pretty much all just c-suite circlejerking. Competent, incisive, effective, and ethical c-suite leadership that doesn’t focus primarily on finance matters is vanishingly rare these days.
I just received a Kagi invite from a friend.
It's absolutely great
Let's hope they don't look too closely at how family plans are shared for now.
10€ + taxes a month is just too steep for meThat's the one thing keeping me from joining the Kagi train
As an alternative, you could try self-hosting searxng if you're that way inclined.
Use Mojeek
What's mojeek?
Mojeek is the only search engine that's truly and absolutely free from the clutches of Big Tech.
The links are indexed from a crawler entirely built from the ground up, making it an alternative in the true sense.
Results are ranked based on input keywords alone.
No shady algorithmic manipulation.
No advertisements.
Also includes features like dark mode, location masking.
I've been using it for months. It's an absolute delight!
Because Enshittification
Don't think there's any new info in the video.
Thats subjective though...
New to who?
I've been experiencing this, but only when I'm not logged in to my Google account. It seems that they're forcing people to log in so that the search results are less shitty.
I miss old mrwhosetheboss who was more technically knowledgeable. He was talking about android modifications like roms that he probably would never talk about today.
For the time being at least, there are options to still use the cleaner search results. For Firefox, this post walks through how to set it up: https://lemm.ee/post/42488635/14853159