Uh not me, I use a much healthier and better alternative: Grok, the thinking man's thinking machine. Anyway Webster's dictionary defines white genocide as
I've already moved to other search engines as this AI slop really muddled the search results too much.
I’ve been wanting to switch to something else but everything I’ve tried is equally shitty or depends on Google anyway. Halp.
I don't know if this kagi has a stealth marketing campaign going on Lemmy or not but I keep hearing about it. But I'm so fucking frustrated with search, even duck duck go, I'm just ready to pay already
I tried Kagi and while I really really wanted to like it, cause the concept is great, I was very unimpressed. It’s not mostly their fault, the internet as a whole has just become more and more shit.
startpage.com
dogpile.com
Pft ya right, I’m going to research this myself. ::google searches:: have you guys heard of pizzagate? I think it’s tied to trump and the Epstein files. Joe Rogan says so.
Also Santa is real and he only give presents out in October, NOT December!
For a website that's so insistent on making readers register, it would be nice if they got a bit better at remembering that I already signed in. Sheesh
lol yeah. Pisses me off, too. You on Firefox by any chance?
Yep!
I was really hoping you weren't. I just checked Chrome, where I logged in about a month ago by mistake, and it hasn't logged me out. That unfortunately means that 404 is contributing to the Blink monopoly, which is sad.
Anyway, if you happen to have a paid subscription, the RSS feed permanently logs you in.
Google’s AI is destroying Google. I doubt it’s doing anything to DuckDuckGo or my brain. “Destroying the internet” also seems a bit much.
Maybe we shouldn't feel so safe using DDG. It still relies on Bing results, which could be enshittified just as much if not more than Google's.
DDG results are getting worse too, but it could just be because AI slop is so good at SEO.
The first page of results I get for “solution” queries, are almost always just chatbox 3 page general essays about the search term I used, but no actual solution.
I tried Kagi out and enabled the setting to minimize SEO spammy/AI sloppy search results.
It's not 100% perfect, but it's noticeably better than my last few years of DDG usage. When I search for "How to X" or "Best X buyer's guide", I actually get real results. And not just equivalent to adding "site:reddit" to my search, I mean real hobbyist or professional forums where people have been discussing this shit for years. It's really refreshing.
People don't want to admit that DDG has been a steaming shitloaf for more than a year
Ddg is just as mangled as google except you can't choose 'verbatim'
I have noticed that the "Oxford English" word definitions are incomplete enough to be misleading.
Does anyone still use Google Search? If so, your brain is already destroyed.
Google Search is the default nearly everywhere and most people are not informed/tech savvy enough to even know they should change it. Maybe try educating people instead of going on the internet to post about how most people have no brain...
and most people are not informed/tech savvy enough to even know they should change it.
to post about how most people have no brain...
Ok. Lol. You too.
You’re just being a pretentious asshole and not adding anything constructive
Correct. I am.
Well then go fuck off into the water or some lava or something since you’re fucking useless
And to you as well.
I’m good, I don’t live with the same insecurities that you do
Friendly reminder that you can block, and you should block users that are acting like complete morons.
You speak good advice, I got caught up in some pointless shit with that for real
As someone posted on Showerthoughts, this site has a huge tech literate echo chamber problem.
They were absolutely right.
You don't need to be tech litterate to see the rapid decline in Google search. Sure, if you are very young and new to the internet you may not know any better, but anyone over the age of 20 has witnessed first hand the enshittification of it. I didn't switch due to tech litteracy, I switched because I couldn't find was I was looking for and had to scroll past more and more ads.
Inertia is the only thing carrying them now. The graveyard of tech companies who thought they had it all and lost it is full of Ghosts calling to Google to join them.
The global pressure to de-Americanize tech has never been higher. Perfect entry time for disruption.
What's your point here? Do you genuinely believe that most of the internet consumers have actively switched away from Google as their default search engine?
Is reading not really your thing? Do you just like disingenuous arguments. My point was clear. If you have anything to say, please do.
I just wanted to say that people don't really change defaults easily. You're projecting very hard here. You personally have issues with Google search results (as a matter of fact so do I) and thus you changed the default search engine.
But try stepping outside of the bubble for a moment. You've made two strong assumptions there, that people don't like the results and secondly, that they dislike it enough to change the default. And here's where I disagree, (despite personally falling into the same camp a yours of caring) people mostly don't give a shit. At every step of these chains, only a fraction of the people bother enough to fiddle around with tech stuff
Yes, but "fiddle around with tech stuff" means selecting a different search engine from a menu in your search bar. Not exactly tech stuff. It's not like we don't see articles in every outlet about the evils of alphabet and options abound.
But we agree. Not caring and not knowing are significant barriers.
Nothing could ruin my brain after I ate rocks
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