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A magical word.
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I'm more surprised that people still use Google search at all after the years of enshittification — first the SEO crap, then "personalized search" bubbles, and finally the "AI" idiocy. Even shouting questions down a wishing well seems more productive at this point.
Not to sound confrontational, but you're way too focused on your - likely rather advanced - usage.
90% of people search for very simple stuff. They want to know the weather or want to know about that new movie they don't quite remember the name of. And for that use case, Google is perfectly serviceable. And since people are used to it, for example by it being the default on most platforms, they use it.
A lot of market leaders are objectively a bad choice, but they're a known brand. Coca cola, McDonald's, Oracle, etc.
I don't think you sound confrontational, but neither do I consider my internet searching particularly advanced. A lot of my searches are exactly what you describe, and a lot is trying to find a good research rabbit hole to go down. Call me curious.
I'm just sceptical, primarily of Google Search's inroads into surveillance monetisation and effective monopoly. For the same reasons I am as critical of the other "market leaders" you mention; I don't consider the ability to inspire brand loyalty in millions of consumers to sell crap products a quality 🤷
I would honestly consider anyone that uses Lemmy or the Fediverse to be more advanced than the average user.
Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc all suffer the same problems. I’d love to hear other alternatives (and I don’t mean alternatives like searx that is little more than lipstick on a pig and proxies search results from said engines).
There's nothing perfect. I use Kagi which uses many other indexes including Google, but with a focus on "small web" results and no ads or mandatory AI nonsense.
...but it costs money.
Well worth it in my opinion. My results have been better than Google for me, and I've been using it for like a year now. Highly recommend.
I learned about kagi when I got here on Lemmy and I've been using it since. Sucks that it costs money but they're not making money elsewhere, that i know of, so it can't just be a loss leader and free.
Google supports searching "specific phrases", -excluding_words, +ensuring_keywords, and whatever * is. I havent found any other indexers that allow me to make use of searches with that level of detail, which is often the only way you can find specific things these days.
Duckduckgo does plenty with its advanced search operators, which are pretty similar to Google's. * is a wildcard, meaning if you were to search c*y, results word return something including a sequence beginning with 'c' and ending with 'y', but having any sequence of characters in between them.
Left out shadow banning raw footages on YT while front page promoting the same footage with heavy edits and narration that lied about what happened ('see no resisting'). -Leading to riots, increased racism, civil unrest, anti-cop sentiment, innocent lives, jobs, and property lost, etc. All to distract us from a racist genocide they support.
Yandex is the only search I'm aware of that passes tests (using verifiable facts) on the subject. -Grok the only AI.
equivalent of spraying graffiti to keep the rents down.
Does
That work?
9mm cartridges are about $0.25 each. Occasionally popping off about $2 worth can save you $400/mo.
Did we just solve the rent/housing crisis?
"The Gang Solves The Housing Crisis"
Sure. Rich people don't want to live anywhere where poor people also live.
When I become a millionaire, I would live next door to rich people but in (apparently) dirty and ugly clothes. I would put three colours on the roof of my mansion and grow a hideous front yard.
just tested, works well. fuck
Sounds like it’d be a worthwhile browser extension to insert that into every search.
Sudo apt install thefuck
No wait
Huh, these are not the Laurel & Hardy films I used to watch ...
Yeah, but that, uh, also alters her search results.
-fuck
Seems to still work and not affect the search. In my limited testing that is. If this keeps working someone just needs to create a extension the auto adds -fuck to all searches.
But what if I don't want to exclude "fuck?" That would filter out half of my code comments
Good luck searching for porn with that exclusion.
Google doesn't show AI for porn searches.
Bing continues to be the best porn search engine.
Google respects AI's privacy more than people's? ~/s~
Seems like more work than installing ublock origin and using duck duck go.
duck duck go has been giving me AI summaries / suggestions
You can turn it off but if your cookies are cleared you have to do it again.
Works. DON’T TELL ANYONE OR ELSE THEYLL FIX IT.
OMG it really does!!!
Fucking cheat code!
This is gonna be fun
Fuck it works pretty well too
Or you could just...stop using Google?
I suppose we can empirically test that. Time to fuck around and find out i guess
Fuckin A
Fuck!
Ok so I will do that going forward...
Fucking great