Yes, we need to accept that it is broken and move on to something that isn't
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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Let's call it Newgle
Lougle has a better ring to it.
You are the patron saint of the totally fucked.
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This post made me actually pay for kagi
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Some of us left it behind quite awhile ago:-).
The problem is that a fuckton of the web is SEO poisoned, so even a better search engine will find garbage because for a lot of subjects garbage is all that’s available.
The best chef in the world can’t turn shit into anything you want to eat.
This is what they want you to think but they're hardly even trying. Google is shitty on purpose because if initial search results are bad, you "engage" more and see more ads. And since they're not worried about competition because google is the default search nearly everywhere -- most people don't even know there are alternatives, google is synonymous with search -- they can enshittify their search as much as they want. https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
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DuckDuckGo is just Bing.
It's not just Bing. They added an animal mascot. :-D
Explains why it so good for finding porn
Tbf, it's not hard to find porn on the internet:-D.
In terms of results, yes. But at least there's no ads, nor sponsored results, nor bloody AI crap.
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Asked Google assistant today what the withdrawal symptoms of Adderall were... got told the suicide prevention hotline. So, that was fun.
To be fair, any drug of abuse potential will usually trigger SAMSHA links in the US by law. That might have been what you saw, and it's been that way for at least a decade.
That's... Less than helpful.
(Also, I can try to field this one for you: headaches, fatigue, mental fogginess, sometimes temporary depressed mood or irritability, maybe increased appetite?)
Today I was trying to look up the syntax for how to search before a certain date on Google. The google AI overview turned out to be wrong
"nope", but it's a 100-word excerpt from Reddit that pops in just as you're about to click a link and shifts everything down.
Well in fairness I've never been to Italy, so it's possible it doesn't exist.
I have been so it does exist. However I've never been to Greenland, so Greenland may not exist.
Yeah, but I haven't met you so...
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Does Italy exist?
Google: Blue right?
Well i guess i don't really exist then.
I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
I'm in Finland so I can only give a sad forlorn look toward Italy and say "First time?"
Anyway.
Now:
Me: "What's the weather like today?"
Computer: "It'll be 25°C or so."
Me: "How do you know that?"
Computer: "I looked up your location and queried the national weather service."
Soon:
Me: "What's the weather like today?"
Computer: "It'll be 25°C or so."
Me: "How do you know that?"
Computer: "Fuck if I know. I've just learned that is a thing that people apparently say in situations like this."
You: "How do you know that?"
Computer: "u/trollface69420 says 'Its always 25°C or so lol'"
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, Mothman, Italians. All folklore.
I switched to the French search engine Qwant. Much nicer.
But every result is a recipe for baguettes
It's worse than broken - every time you use google you encourage them, financially, to make it worse. Stock market capitalism. stop doing it.
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The CIA: "we fuckin' knew it!"
It has become so bad for results in Spanish too, that I am now self-hosting SearXNG even though I'm the only one using it in my family lol
I did just ask this question of Google assistant and it worked fine. I asked it about rings as well and it explained the composition of rings and pointed to Saturn as the primary example. I definitely think there has been a degradation in service, but the examples given here actually perform just fine.
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