I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.
What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
1993-2002ish was the golden age of the web. Now everybody just goes to the same handful of websites for everything. Even if you hate Spez, you still can’t find any quality answers to anything without adding site:reddit.com to your searches. Everything else is SEO-optimized blogspam generated by a bot. There are no real personal webpages being run by a single person or a small entity anymore. Everything is corporate and centralized.
Time cube is so around, right?
Edit: it is not :(
Use DuckDuckGo. I left google years ago as results became ridiculous
I do (it’s my default search engine) but I more often than not have to go back to Google anyway cause DDG promotes those bot-written blogs to the top even more than Google does. Ironically Bing does better than both because at least it’s GPT-powered.
That said, none of these search engines can provide me the results I’m looking for most of the time. I need something different.
A duckduckgo search is a Bing search
DuckDuckGo might be more private, but it won’t solve the SEO problem. I know they have some of their own trackers, but in practice duckduckgo is basically a front-end for Bing.
We need a good solution to the search engine problem. With that we can just metaphorically load a save at the last known point before everything started sucking