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?
Have you considered not using Google?
Yes, but in my experience other search engines still give slightly worse results.
Kagi seemed good, but don’t wanna pay for it. Or at least not as much as they’re charging.
I like Ecosia, but we can agree to disagree.
I've been using Brave Search in the past few months and i can't notice any difference in quality from Google in regular search.
The only difference I can't notice is the quality in image searches.
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.
Maybe because the person that ran yahoo search into the ground is now responsible for Google search.
Yup that's the definitive answer
So you posted a 17 minute video instead of a five-word sentence
Link an article next time please!
The video is really interesting and more useful than that single sentence though.
It still contains about one minute's worth of info in a 17 minute video though
If something is engaging, interesting, and entertaining, then it is far more likely to stick in your mind or teach you something new than a single sentence. This 17-minute video may do more to raise awareness of google search's enshitification than any single sentence or minutes worth of info would ever have.
I dont disagree with you, but i dont think it matters. The video will help people.
You found the marble in the oatmeal!!
Do I get to drink from the firehose?
We’re all drinking from the firehose right now
Bingo. We have a winner
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’m also a software engineer, but much earlier in my career and mostly having worked at small startups. But I hope some of the tech giants fall and make way for smaller players and innovation. But maybe that’s too optimistic.
I’ve got the same hope, buddy. It’s engineering; we solve problems. We just need to figure out how to unshackle ourselves from the hypercapitalists. Hopefully we can sort that out soon.
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.
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 me
That'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.
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.
Because Enshittification
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
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!
Why have I never heard of this before?
Because it's relatively new - just a year or two old.
They've actually been around for almost 20 years
Oh mama! 🤯 I've been living under the darkness of the googolcave for two decades!
Whoa, mama!
Thank you JohnnyBravo! You a super cool guy! Just added this as a search engine in Firefox
You're welcome! 😎
Not totally true that its the only one, Brave search also has an indépendant index and (imo) works better.
There are many more, too, although the number of pages they index is widely variable. Here's a list.
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.
Don't think there's any new info in the video.
Thats subjective though...
New to who?
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