Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 11 months ago
I work in an education setting and in the last month, Google started preloading the contents of other sites directly on the search page. It is wreaking havoc when combined with our blocking tools because kids will do a Google search for something innocuous and the page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something else we have blocked.
It’s incredibly frustrating.
the page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something
Does that mean any search (AI insight notwithstanding) will get blocked if it includes a Reddit, Coursera or something on the blocklist result at all?
Because if yes, that’s much more than just asinine. It’s basically blocking entire search topics due to the sheer fact that Reddit will appear on the furst page of Google a lot.
That is exactly what is happening. They type in the search query on their Chromebook, the results page flashes for a second and then the “this page is blocked” screen comes up saying they were blocked from Reddit, et al. Without them clicking on any search results.
Somewhat OT but why do you block coursera?
We have a different person that manages our block list so I don’t know the reason for all the blocks. That said, we block www.coursehero.com not www.coursera.org
time to switch to Qwant, ecosia, or duckduckgo
use udm=14. tedium.co/2024/…/google-web-search-make-default/ You can set it as default search provider.
Amazing, thank you!
Does that work in Firefox? Seems like I don’t have the ability to edit the address.
Yeah, even on mobile you can do it.
This is available in the UI too - there’s a tab labeled “Web”. Sometimes it’s hiding under “More”.
Adding it to the search provider URL is a good idea though.
Thanks for the tip
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Google search has sucked for a couple years now. DuckDuckGo is better for everything except maps.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 11 months ago
That’s been my go to since they started. There is/was a challenge using them when we evacuated them a while back with forcing safe search reliability if I recall the reason.
Routhinator@startrek.website 11 months ago
Thats because for some ungodly reason they use Apple Maps. Not sure why they dont integrat with an OpenStreetMaps like service. At least that way users can start contributing to fill the gaps
Scrollone@feddit.it 11 months ago
Mapy is also a great European alternative, based on OpenStreetMaps