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

[staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org]

@ocean The ultimate endgame, the most effective way to play the advertising game is to trap all users in an inescapable maze of ads forever so they see as many ads as possible.

[thebratdragon@mastodon.scot]

@ocean not just google, all search engines return shit results, even if they try not to, because of infestations of advertising and misdirection markers at every turn.

[mistermaker@fosstodon.org]

@gsuberland @benjohn @osman @seq @morgunkorn @kagihq Oh no that sounds bad.... I am not against AI stuff, you just have to see it as a fancy spelling and grammar check.

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@MisterMaker @benjohn @osman @seq @morgunkorn @kagihq yeah, well, I am against it.

[publictorsten@mastodon.social]

@ocean Your assumptions are based on incomplete data. I had a look into the documents in question and Google is worried to lose traffic if the search quality decreases.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Google%20Search%20Engine%20Monopoly%20Ruling.pdf

[pfm@edolas.world]

@ocean could you please link the source?

[rafinha13@mastodon.social]

@ocean isso é cruel porque destrói o nosso tempo

[cassolotl@eldritch.cafe]

@ocean @ashiel Debunked: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/114492859575120183

[jackyan@mastodon.social]

@ocean Sure was, they even wrote it down.

https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-design-internal-memo/

[jackyan@mastodon.social]

@adavid @ocean Here is one. Literally in a Google memo.

https://jackyan.com/blog/2023/09/google-search-is-worse-by-design-internal-memo/

[levampyre@chaos.social]

@ocean Nein! Doch! Oh!

[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”