Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web?

thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just to reiterate - don’t use Google

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  • kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To avoid misunderstandings: FUCK GOOGLE

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    • artocode404@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For those who didn’t get it… GOOGLE IS SHIT, DON’T USE!

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      • knexcar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What’s wrong with Google? AI answers are pretty convenient.

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• 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We have good options to replace Google Search. What good options exist to replace search on Google Maps?

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  • BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Open Street Maps, or any fork from it. You can also purchase a modern road atlas for basically nothing. Alternatively, people do make navigation units for cars, that you can purchase. Life is completely possible, with relatively little inconvenience if you want to separate yourself from Big Tech. I write down the directions and just follow street signs. You don’t want to rely on things like GPS, because it destroys your ability to commit identifying markers to memory. You can glance at the screen and glance at the road in front of you. But that stops you from being able to commit the experience from memory. Smart Tech and the offloading of our mental faculties to technology has made all of us

    1. Way too overconfident in our ability to comprehend, review and parse information.

    2. Decimated our attention spans and will most likely see a whole new type of cognitive decline.

    Sorry for the tangent. But yeah, there’s options there. With or without the tech.

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  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    OsmAnd. There’s also a new fork of Organic Maps called CoMaps after Organic had some drama. A bunch of Organic devs left and forked it into CoMaps.

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  • insomniac@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What are good Google alternatives that don’t rely on Google or Bing?

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• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s the best alternative, in your opinion? I’ve tried Bing and DuckDuckGo, but both showed me worse results for my particular searches.

  I just want classic Google Search back, before everything got turned to shit. But I fear that doesn’t really exist since there’s such an economic incentive behind how search engines rank and show results.

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  • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you can afford to spend 10 bucks a month for a search engine, Kagi is pretty sleek. No ads, you can block/prioritize websites, good bangs, convinient CSS field for easy modding.

    It does AI stuff too, but it’s optional as the other non-standard search output fields.

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  • Kr4u7@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Searxng - any of the instances hosted in Germany Brave search - but only search

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  • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Google without AI udm14.org

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  • thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve been using a combination of brave and ddg. Work with the filtering

    I was an SEO for 20+. Years. Google is dying as far as search relevancy. It’s trying to transition to a new paradigm that prioritizes payment surrounding data than ads. Much more money in the data angle, and ads as we know them will be dying soon, replaced with more insipid product placements.

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    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ll check out Brave, it’s been mentioned a few times.

      I don’t mind companies making a dime, but now it’s really devolved in bad results that are profit-driven.

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