When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
When it comes to Google, I find it completely absurd how people are OK with a giant ad / spy company saving and profiting from their private searches. Their entire lives, every sensitive query, stored in their databases. Why is this accepted? Completely shocking actually.
They are basing their entire profit model on spying on users privacy and selling it to advertisers. Doesn’t that make you sick to your stomach?
How do you look stuff up?
I use duckduckgo but wouldn’t return good results sometimes.
Kagi, it’s amazing.
I used to use ddg a few years ago but it wasn’t good enough to completely leave Google search.
Kagi is even better than Google. Highly recommend you try it, it makes the web feel fresh again.
I just read the article. I’m stunned.
I’ve noticed in the past year or so that duckduckgo would return all results of one brand or similar websites no matter what general term I add.
I know ddg send query to search engines but I didn’t know google was the culprit. I thought ddg sucks.
Kagi sounds good. I’ll definitely give it a shot. Hopefully it’ll not get acquired by google or microsoft.
Okay i will have to Google for Kagi since you didn’t provide a link… /s
Edit: Kagi requires a login just to search? Wtf? And it’s $10 per month?? Hahaha forget it! Bye!
Google doesn’t return good results either though.
If you want best effort, use DDG as your main search. If the first query doesn’t bring back what you want add g! to it and it will redirect to Google. yt! goes to YouTube, b! goes to bing, w! Wikipedia, etc.
I think google peaked in 2016 and since then it’s in steady decline.
I use to assume if google didn’t return good results then no enough content is on the web.
Thanks for the tip!