Googling Is for Old People. That’s a Problem for Google.

Another problem is they ruined their own search with AI.

Kicked themselves right in the nuts.

Younger generations are using other platforms to gather information.

What's not being talked about here is that young people don't seem to give a damn if the information they research is accurate or not, it's whether or not it's peddled by their preferred streamer. Those "other platforms" are apparently Tiktok and Netflix, not exactly places known for speaking truth to power.

I've spent twenty years trying to believe that the children will be the saviors of the future, but I think maybe the conservatives actually succeeded in murdering education in it's crib. I am now nearly fully on team "You know, maybe these kids actually are a bunch of dumb fucks who won't save us after all."

I was Googling just fine until Google ruined it with "SEO" and AI so that completely irrelevant results dominate the first 2 or 3 pages.

Can't read this article thanks to shitty paywall. Yet it has 28 trackers even tho it just need pure HTML

Edit: thank you for archive link OP!

What? I Google stuff all the time. Just not on Google (DuckDuckGo or Qwant)

And how do non-old people navigate the web? I mean I get it, you don't need to google the Wikipedia article about the French Revolution... You can ask AI. But how do you find business hours for the repair shop downtown? Which website sells the concert tickets? News from yesterday? The forum that tells you if 32GB of RAM fit into your laptop?

Googling is for advertisers..

I would like two search engines displaying results side by side whenever I do a search. There's so much empty space on a wide screen display anyway.

Maybe I should check if there's an addon for this...

Stopped using google some time ago.

I don’t even know why people use Google anymore besides maps and restaurant data. The rest is all SEO corporate junk.

I search directly on medical and research / studies sites now. The rest I use AI.

I still use Google search without an issue, just de-bullshitted by the whoogle frontend.

The second threat is the rise of “answer engines” like Perplexity which, well, do what they say on the tin. OpenAI has added internet search to ChatGPT, Meta Platforms is exploring building its own search engine, and even AI chatbots that can’t search the internet are proving increasingly capable at addressing many questions. They’re also becoming ever more widespread, as Microsoft and Appleintegrate them directly into the operating systems of all the devices they make or support.

That is not an improvement, it's just also not really any worse.

https://searx.space/