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

[ginaintheburg@mastodon.world]

@ocean

No surprise there.

And that is why I keep DuckDuckGo at the ready. I can't tell you how many times I've found what I need there after coming up empty handed with Google.

[hallunke23@troet.cafe]

I've noticed this, too.

Sometimes, I'm getting Google results that don't even mention my search term.

Your post convinced me to move away from Google, but I still need to find a new search engine.

#google @ocean

[chaft@meow.social]

@ocean it backfires because I've since moved to other engines and ai

[aryamiller@mastodon.social]

@realestninja @ocean thanks

[farnkraut@digitalcourage.social]

@ocean @calisti I hate this timeline I just want a decent search. I don’t find alternatives (most often relying on Google or bing results) to be all that better. Pls someone capable do something

[gladso@mastodon.social]

@ocean I have avoided using Google search for years, simply because it turned to shit.

[idoclosecuts@mstdn.ca]

@ocean have you read this article?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[tasket@infosec.exchange]

@adavid @ocean The actual article quoted is here: https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/

[gothodile@furs.social]

@ocean they literally just did the supermarket model with a computer. what will they think of next.

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@ocean and now they can more easily force us to engage with the stupid chatbot because it's the only one getting the good results

[ari@fedi.arimelody.space]

@ocean i've heard people asserting this for years but it's nice to have an actual court document validating what we already believed :]

[leo@60228.dev]

@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone i will note that this is kind of distant extrapolation from the actual court documents that the original author went on social media to flatly deny

[icedquinn@blob.cat]

still pay for kagi though i wish they were still growing their internal index.

RE: https://raru.re/@ocean/114490739719068242

[rainbowpink@snug.moe]

@ocean no one at google is free from sin

[spdrnl@sigmoid.social]

@ocean Yes, and it was noticeable. I stopped using Google for that reason. The amount of work that I had to do became tiring; it was noticeable in a day. All the weeding.

[riggbeck@mastodon.social]

@ocean

From 'don't be evil' to 'let's see just how evil we can be'. Glad I closed my Google account a while ago.

[simon@procrastodon.net]

@ocean @yessie Joke's on them, I pay for a proper search engine now.

[virkon42@det.social]

@ocean i hardly use Google anymore. If ever then only udm14

[vampirdaddy@chaos.social]

@ocean
Plus it de-lists entries that are older than 5-7 years.

You can check that on a(ny) older/continuing forum, i.e. the same server, even the same board/thread. Older entries are de-listed from the search index.

[m1rk0@social.defcon42.net]

@ocean If you are still using Google as your main search engine in 2026, maybe you should stop using the internet at all. You are a threat to yourself and humanity.