A year long study shows what you’ve suspected: Google Search is getting worse.::undefined

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    10 months ago

    It’s the life cycle of tech. New innovative technology gets invented, takes the market by storm, generates millions in value, investors get their hands on it, generates tens of millions, becomes publically traded, corpos inflate its value, bills come due, technology sabotaged to squeeze out any remaining profit, tech become withered husk of its formal self in a space it occupys alone and we get to eat shit salad every time we have to use it

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    10 months ago

    Member when Wired ran the article “How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet” and then pulled it after pushback, specifically claims that they had misinterpreted what Google was actually saying?

    High editorial standards aside, it’s good to know they were vindicated in spirit.

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    10 months ago

    I stopped using google search around 2018. The reason? Their ads were serving literal virus-infected links of scams that pretend to be real companies.

    Nothing has changed since.

    Duckduckgo for life I guess

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    10 months ago

    SEO, the methodology of ruining Google’s algorithm and enshittifying everything for marketing gains.

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    10 months ago

    I’m interested in self hosted web search engines to run at home instead of using Google is SearXNG a good replacement or are there other better suggestions?

    Other than self hosting a search engine what are some good web search providers? Most of my device browsers list the following default options:

    • Google
    • Yahoo
    • Bing
    • DuckDuckGo
    • Ecosia
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      10 months ago

      If you are going to self-host a search engine, I would recommend two things to retain some degree of anonymity:

      1. Don’t run it from your home
        You don’t want to pass Google your IP address
      2. Advertise it in public spaces
        That way, queries don’t just come from you

      Otherwise, finding somebody else’s instance would be good for both you and for them. There’s no shame in not running one yourself.

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      10 months ago

      There is also Kagi, a paid search engine. They recently gained some controversy due to “partnering” with Brave, but quickly backtrack on the “partner” announcement.