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

[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.

[urban_hermit@mstdn.social]

@HeptaSean @Paradox @ocean I use a search engine in two ways: 1.) basic information like how to spell a word (auto correct on my phone is crap now - ef Google). For that even the Google AI answer is good enough. Or, 2.) Very specific information on a specific thing that is uncommon. For that Google is crap and ignores specific words in your search so it can produce more common results that it has sold more advertising for. Now even if I use quotes results still favor the 'common' answer.