Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it’s your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple’s smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, the DOJ said.
Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it’s your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple’s smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, the DOJ said.
I find myself using duckduckgo and kagi more and more. All search engines suck, honestly, but the not-Google choices maybe suck a little less. Google results have gotten horrible, it’s so obvious it’s just serving up sponsored ad links, not actual information. I mean, that’s been the case for a long time but they’ve really dialed up the suck.
I miss the days when it was rare to need to goto the second page. Now you have to in order to get passed the all the shite. Even ignoring the sponsored shit Google wants to sell me the thing I’m trying to get a review of on the firs and second page
In my case it’s trying to sell me the fucking thing i explicitly excluded from results with a boolean
I can imagine some mid-level idiot with an MBA coming up with that one in a staff meeting. “I know how we increase revenue, guys: the old reverse psychology!”
Bastard probably got a bonus for it.
Not even that smart. It’s just shitty, shitty SEO
‘Stick ads for x on anything that mentions x, xa, xy and related terms. Don’t pay attention to exclusions’
Duck duck go has kept getting better and google has kept getting worse.
I find the results are pretty even now and often lean in DDG’s favour (but not always, obviously).
Because of this, I’ve set my default everywhere to DDG and give Google a whirl sometimes if that doesn’t work out for a specific search.
It’s that extra crap that kills it for me.
I have all the add-ins, extensions, etc so my experience is fine (and I also just use DuckDuckGo). But I tried searching for something on my parent’s computer with Google… it was like the early 00s with all the crap before the actual results.
I immediately switched their default, but I could not believe it. Like why would you do that to your own site?
What extensions will make my experience Better? I still Google but I don’t wanna use it anymore
UBlock Origin is probably the main one.
honestly… duckduckgo.com
you will still get most of the top results, but without all the nonsense.
Their browser is a bit shady and how it shares info with Microsoft / Bing but their search engine is solid.
Stupid name, good search results.
How do you justify Kagis pricing? I search so much everyday that that I would need the “Ultimate” plan which is just too expensive when other alternatives are just free.
I haven’t paid for it yet, just been dabbling with it. If I do end up paying for it, I guess it’s like anything else, is it worth it to me, personally? I don’t have an answer yet, but the ads funded model got us to the shitshow we have today.
My partner and I are on the duo plan with 1500 searches and haven’t hit our limit. I’ve honestly been surprised how little we search?
You may be too, Kagi is very good. I haven’t regretted paying for it at all.
Isn’t DDG just Bing? I know when sites are banned on Bing, they don’t appear there either. Felt it was the same search…
Perhaps Bing with privacy?
I think so, yeah.