Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder

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• alsu2launda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have noticed this too, DDG is giving me more of what i want, google always disappoints with random an unrerlated resutls, Some of the resultso of DDG are not even visible in first page of google results.

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• fiddlestix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Obligatory mention of Kagi (which is actually brilliant).

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  • letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mmm, but what’s their plan to resist enshittification? After all, Google started out as “fundamentally different, user-centric.” What will Kagi do when their market penetration peaks and the business managers demand more growth?

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    • Chunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You have to pay for kagi so they are not incentivized to serve ads. They are incentivized to give you a good set of search results so you keep paying.

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      • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lots of services are both paid and still show ads. Like cable TV

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      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly. The simple fact is, people need to get more willing to pay for things with money instead of personal data. Nothing is free, but we like the idea that things don’t cost money, and instead we’ve allowed corporations to literally buy and monetize our very selves.

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      • dlrht@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just curious, in the hypothetical situation that 100% of users on the web used Kagi how is it any different? They’ll demand more growth at that point but how would they achieve it?

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    • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They charge an assload to use their service.

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  • NakedGardenGnome@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve used it this month a bit for the free 100 searches, but found it rather similar to my Google results. Can someone enlighten me in how they provide a better service?

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    • Sendbeer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I find the results to be cleaner and more relevant at least. With Kagi the relevant link is usually first or second link (like Google used to be) and the same search on Google I sometimes have to scroll down about 3-4 pages till I get to something relevant. Worse some of the ads Google is pushing to the top are misleading or completely contrary to what I’m looking for.

      Kagi allowing me to ban domains (bye bye pinterest) and boost others has also been pretty helpful.

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  • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    $5/mo

    … per person.

    Or $20 for 6 in your house. $240/yr for your family to use a search engine.

    I mean… Come on! There’s no way that’s under 95% profit.

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• Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately DDG has gone downhill quite a lot in the last year or two.

  Exception made for local businesses,

  It’s funny you say that, because in the last year or so suddenly my search results are being polluted with completely unrelated links to local businesses that don’t even contain a single one of my search terms.

  They’ve obviously struck some deal where they’re shoehorning these ads into search results now. Very frustrating because they serve them as regular links so they bypass adblockers.

  Really scummy move on their part, and it’s made their service worse to boot.

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• dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel Kagi does both things

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• Asimo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, I know David DeGea is a good keeper but I’m not sure he can save the internet too.

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