Comment on Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere

Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re somehow WORSE than duckduckgo nowadays like how? You were the search leader, people used DDG for privacy reasons but they passed you??? Did you forget why you’re a company? It’s because you were the best fucking search engine ever and you decided to sell that title for ads or some shit. Incredible how Google fell off the fucking side of a mountain they themselves built!

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, but have you considered, line must go up?

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For me it went from “great” to “usable” over the course of a decade or so, and then from “usable” to “worthless” over the course of six months. It’s a remarkably awful trajectory.

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  • hagelslager@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It’s my main search engine these days after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      you can -something , but it isn’t full exclusion. It’s generally been good enough for me. I agree the full fat version would be nice.

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      • hagelslager@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So far I haven’t had any luck with -something “soft” exclusions either.

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    • rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yea I bailed after they nerfed exclusions and whatnot but not like the others are slam dunks

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  • icedterminal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s pretty wild how Google search has degraded. The push for SEO has really ruined useful results.

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  • snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Kagi is even better than DDG. Google is absolutely horrendous.

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s interesting but 120 a year is just too much for me.

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      • snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The lowest plan is only $54 a year and it’s most definitely worth it for the results.

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is ddg actually good now? I remember it feeling nearly useless waay back when it was first hitting the scene. Might have to give it a shot again

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    • jagungal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not a power user, but I’ve used DDG exclusively for a while now and I often forget that I’m using it. I’d say it’s a pretty seamless transition nowadays.

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    • Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You actually get the results you are looking for without the sponsored links. Sometimes you end up searching for reddit results but that’s every search engine.

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      • snowe@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not kagi. I haven’t specified Reddit once since switching to kagi. It really is that much better than DDG and Google.

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    • Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I only use Google if DDG can’t find what I’m looking for. Usually Google doesn’t either if DDG can’t do lately I’ve been giving up after the DDG results. I can’t stand Google anymore. The first page of results is just ads and the next page is all irrelevant nonsense.

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• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah it’s so bad, the auto predictions dont even make sense any more.

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the auto predictions always give me more words than i need, so i have to type normally, like it wasn’t there, or select, hope it doesn’t load, and delete

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    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And when i go to click on an auto prediction it changes it at the last damn second too. That drives me mad

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      • ourob@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is my beef with basically all modern interfaces. Stuff changes and moves with just enough of a delay to cause me to miss click. Autocomplete changing recommendations on phones, UI elements shifting on web pages, etc.

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This has been something so frustrating that nobody seems to talk about. They really need to provide autofill that only adds the one next word, rather than two or three. Because otherwise, the autofill becomes useless.

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• dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google doesn’t work anymore.

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• Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And they want to force us to whitelist youtube from adblockers.

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