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- cross-posted to:
- google@lemdro.id
- technology@beehaw.org
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“For good” someone might need to learn what that means. Google is going to axe this I’m sure.
I feel like Google is trying to speedrun killing their search service. It was already significantly shittier lately just because of all the sponsored bullshit and SEO spam, but this rush to cash in on the AI fad has really destroyed the last utility it had.
The average user does not care. They will still use Google.
If hoards of a people can change from IE to Phoenix / Firefox, and from Firefox to Chrome, I have faith that is possible to get people to abandon Google search.
Everybody will eventually notice when it becomes useless.
Obviously the best choice to switch search engines. But isn’t pressing page down or adding a ruel to your adblock easier than editing the URL?
There isn’t a free alternative that works as well, unfortunately. Bing not only has many of the same issues, but has worse results. Since DuckDuckGo makes use of Bing’s API for its results, in addition to lacking features such as date range searches, it is still a step down in terms of the quality of one’s search results. Having switched to Firefox due to Google’s efforts to make unilateral, self-serving changes to Chromium, I’d be only too glad to switch search providers if an alternative provider had a similar number of accurate results.
Try Startpage.
Google results without using Google directly.
Why do people still use Google search? I switched years ago. It was easy. I don’t regret.
About every 6 months I try to migrate to DDG, and historically there has always been something pertaining to organic search relevancy that has lured me back to the devil’s embrace.
That said, I’m going to give it a go again. Just switched the default back to DDG.
Learn bangs!
95% of my searches, DDG is fine and I’ve learnt where it might struggle and I just end the search with !g
This then searches Google, yeah I’m still using Google for 5% of my searches but it’s better than 100%.
Or use !start to search startpage.
Google sux, I used to love DDG, and the they stopped indexing Yandex which imo made it just as bad as google
