You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago

[drkylara@sfba.social]

@ocean
Now someone please tell my students. They are shocked by what I can find on the internet that Google never showed them.

[rexi@mastodon.social]

@ocean

commercialized enshittification.
marvy.

[lmgenealogy@mstdn.ca]

@ocean I never use Google search (or Google anything, if I can help it). There's a reason they dropped the 'don't be evil'.

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@ocean that is more like assholification than enshitification

[a_cubed@mastodon.social]

@ocean @lrhodes
Paging @pluralistic

[anguadelphine@mk.absturztau.be]

@ocean@raru.re

Yeah, no. I stopped using that shitshow YEARS ago.
For a while I warned people to go straight to the last ten or so pages of results, last time I checked, even those are fixed.

Most successful scams are Long Cons.

[cattail@mastodon.social]

@ocean I'm not surprised worse quality products affect usage. We see it with shrinkflation. I doubt people are dropping potato chips after they removed 5 chips

[alleyoop@mastodon.social]

@ocean Ugh. I am so fucking tired of being taken advantage of! Aren't you?

[das_blaue_pony@mastodon.social]

@ocean

[itamarst@hachyderm.io]

@khleedril @ocean They started adding advertising pretty early on, honestly, I think it's just amusing (and sad) to see the path they went down.

[ehay2k@mastodon.social]

@ocean

Oh, @briankrebs

[aarbrk@mstdn.mx]

@itamarst @ocean Great catch with this source! If only we had spent the interim setting up an alternative in the public interest. (Actually, is it too late?)

[wampusmm@beige.party]

@ocean Wow, that’s despicable.

[sheamuspatt@mstdn.ca]

@ocean
Classic #enshittification, as noted by @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/

[terrorbite@meow.social]

@aetios now that it's proven true, you have to find a new conspiracy theory. Sorry, I don't make the rules

@ocean

[catswhocode@twoot.site]

@ocean not surprising.
Thankfully I rarely use them! @aetios

[radioazureus@mastodon.social]

@ocean

DuckDuckGo is smooth sailing in searches

@nixCraft

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@ocean This is really strange. Do people who notice it has gotten even worse than Bing stay on Google anyway? Or do that few people notice?

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@TerrorBite @aetios @ocean I've already found a new one & it has quickly become my favorite. My current conspiracy theory is that everything will be ok.

[quantillion@mstdn.io]

@ocean
This has been the case for decades.
It's one of the reasons I have all of Ggl's URLs uBlocked (+ Privacy Badger).
There are several alternatives. I generally use StartPage & I see no ads.