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

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@Stellar @ocean What alternatives? The sites purporting to be are just scraping and repackaging Google and Bing. They do not have their own indices.

[m@miruku.cafe]

@ocean@raru.re
okay theres a difference between worse on purpose, and they arent actively trying to make it better

the latter is still bad, competition would remedy it

but ya know lets not twist words

[jackyan@mastodon.social]

@adavid @ocean Any time!

[catswhocode@twoot.site]

@powerpath right, that's one of my favorite ones, or Qwant and Startpage recently. @ocean @aetios

[cable@verse.averagedood.xyz]

@ocean@raru.re Not only google, youtube too, try to search something, and it probably search nosense things or shorts. IDK if another google service are geting worst too...

[kevin999@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ocean Search "ten blue links" and follow the instructions for making your default browser google-web. The udf=14? tag improves results significantly. Check my syntax on that...

[volcano@nerdculture.de]

@ocean use DuckDuckGo.com

[frankcat@mstdn.social]

@ocean I guess we need to skip straight to page 2 of Google search results (but mind the hidden bodies)

[benjohn@todon.nl]

@gsuberland @MisterMaker @osman @seq @morgunkorn @kagihq DDG? … I guess this is one conversation where no one can say “let me google that for you”

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aetios @ocean the guy responsible for that is the guy that killed yahoo search

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@msbellows @mark @ocean As luck would have it, our internet search player is compatible with both Google and Bing, also a myriad of other “formats” that would not contain AI.

[trisweb@m.trisweb.com]

@ocean

[tbodt@mastodon.social]

@postie @ocean did you find a link to the court documents

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@ocean also confirmed true...

[trittriton@shelter.moe]

@ocean We already knew, but a reminder is always welcome:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[dcatoffm@mastodon.social]

@kevin999
@ocean

Unfortunately udm=14 appears to be getting stripped out of URL after search, and I'm getting the local product purchase results.

Google warned a couple months ago it was going to enshitify, I mean, "AI enhance," the web results.. I guess it's here.

https://tedium.co/2025/03/14/udm14-search-hack-google-ai-testing/

[ochotonidknight@meemu.org]

@jackemled @TerrorBite @aetios @ocean Call me a conspirator.

[alexjusino@mastodon.social]

@ocean that is just evil

[nudhul@shitposter.world]

@ocean so google turning into a giant ad listicle wasnt just in my head. well i quit using it anyway so fuck you sundar pajeeti

[bigmattoidchimpin@annihilation.social]

@WandererUber @m0xEE @ocean I don't think I've ever encountered a machine-assisted translation system, but I distinctly recall thinking I hit the jackpot after jacking the early translation software that I do believe debuted during the latter nineties. I know that this was one of the rare occasions where I absolutely did not procrastinate for a second. and immediately started IMing (on the great AOL Superhighway built by the Great Steven Case, PBUH) as many people I could in the great nations of France and Germany. Although the responses ran the gamut from utter revulsion to a few who died laughing at their keyboards, they were universal in politely asking to please stop this madness - whatever I may have thought I was saying in German or French was anything but, and this software could only be useful if my intent were to convince the native speakers that the the Tower of Babel really did fall directly on top of my head.