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this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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No matter how many times people shit on Google, it's still the best search engine, as much as I wish it wasn't so. But it is
People aren't comparing it to alternatives, they're comparing it to Google 5-10 years ago.
Google used to be astoundingly good at figuring out what it was you wanted, and finding out for you. Now there's a lot more SEO garbage and meaningless fluff clogging every results page, and if your search could even remotely be related to buying something, it's only products and ads.
I would agree it's a little worse than it used to be, but the post implies it's useless which is just false
Dude, I switched from Google for the first time in my life a couple months ago because I couldn't take it anymore.
Ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads
Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles, Ai articles
The fact that google has a built-in graphing calculator just isn't worth it.
I won't forget this, actually: I was looking up what to do next in a game I was playing—very deliberately, I care a lot about spoilers—and the "people also ask" section implied, for no reason, this had nothing to do with what I wanted to know, that a character who died really early on apparently has things to say in chapter 9.
Ok. You can't really avoid spoilers on the Internet though. That's kind of common knowledge
I do. I'm a professional.
That stupid answers thing only got me once, maybe twice, because I don't let it anymore.
This kind of thing is a lot easier to control, though, when your results are what you wanted and not what you didn't.
kagi gives me much better results. i mean, it better, since it costs money.
Yeah, I would pay for it, but when I looked at pricing I was pretty disappointed
they changed the $25 dollar tier to $10 recently. made it a lot more realistic for me, but i still wish it was lower
What are you on about, Google is complete shit.
Ok. I default to ddg but have to end up using Google half the time. It's not for lack of trying.
Not really. Especially after the first couple results, it's clueless.