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here’s my new favorite helen keller quote, courtesy of Google ai, haha
From the article …
but that I have to wait for all the crap I don’t want in the first place.
It comes down to Google telling us what it thinks we’d want, vs giving us what we actually ask for, and the time wasted doing so.
That, and probably punishing people who use ad blockers.
telling us what it thinks we’d want
that’s “it thinks we’d want to buy”
They’ve gone for the money and are now finding out that cannabalizing search stops customers coming to their site.
in this situation the search engine DuckDuckGo is better than Google because it has an opt-in for a.i.
https://duckduckgo.com/DDG is just Bing
Then Bing it is. I switched on my daily machine and DDG has been ok. Still a lot of sponsored shit I don’t need, but better than getting a solid lie from Google
You can disable the sponsored results in the settings of DDG.
Therefore bing > google
Actually true. They hooked me in the golden era of rewards points and I’ll be damned if it isn’t way better than Google now. Bing image search is especially great. Even their copilot thing (RIP Cortana) is useful.
Are you pulling my leg? I’ve been using ddg for a year and the image search is the worst part by far. I can almost never find what I’m looking for without crawling back to google images.
Regular search is OK tho
It is better Bing
It’s Bing in a private browsing window.
No it isn’t. Just because most of the results come from Bing does not not mean that it is Bing. Bing is awful and DDG is useful.
Last time I ran a side-by-side test, DDG results were identical to Bing in a private browsing session.
That’s the results only though.
That’s often what I’m looking for from a search engine
I tried to switch my primary search engine on Firefox to DDG yesterday when I heard the news. 3 searches later, I switched back. I don’t like Google, but damned if I’m not used to it.
If you use ddg you can redirect any search to google by adding a space ans !g to the end of the search term.
Annoyingly, but works on the cases where google does better.
I love ddg’s bangs for me who mainly uses it for media its so nice being able to !yt whatever i want to search for, vs going to the site and doing it
Lots of other places too (13.5k of them), they’re called ‘!bangs’. !w Wikipedia !r spezit etc.
Full list here https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
In a similar vein, I was trying to find something on Facebook (yeah, I know, but it was a funny work thing) today and went to use the search function to look for the FB page in question (searched the exact name) and if you just hit enter the new AI assumes you’re asking it a question. It’s FB! It’s not a search engine! Why is it trying to give me a phone number for the police department I’m looking up to see their insane post?! I want to see the page! The page with the name I searched! On the app I searched in! Now you have to click a separate button that specifies you’re looking to search through FB… In the FB app!
This AI crap is already k.i.l.l.i.n.g. me.
Deliberate vandalism of the commons needs to actually be made illegal. This would include the entire field of “search engine optimization” which is simply a misnomer made of weasel words, which actually mean they’ll hide the results you want behind an ever increasing amount of plain old grifter-ass crap sold by the same three old assholes who bought everything and think that means it’s actually theirs, even as they dilute the concept of ownership for the rest of us.
The whole idea needs to die.
While I agree with everything said, using Google to find out how many episodes your own podcast has just seems a bit lazy. Bookmark the page, and next time you want to do your admin work you can follow the bookmarks and be done with it. Easy fix.
Also, use DDG
Been using DuckDuckGo for a long time but I recently trialed Kagi and have been quite impressed! It’s not free but hopefully it keeps the enshittification away for a bit longer.
ya, that kinda sucks. for me it shows both and i directly sick to search results, but Google search has gotten worse
I can’t escape this hell
So many times I’ve tried
But I’m still caged inside
Somebody get me through this nightmare
I can’t control myself
three days doors grace down or something
I haven’t seen any AI results yet, wonder if you have to be logged in for that.
Maybe they are doing a gradual role out
