Comment on Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
It could. In fact it will make that part of the Web yet another step closer to a bot-populated SEO-infested graveyard where a living human will find nothing useful.
If only my friends would stop using VK to communicate, and my family FB for the same.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hate to say it. But we’re already here.
It’s impossible to find information through search anymore without writing some specific queries. It’s actually getting easier to just ask a chat AI.
applejacks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
the most frustrating part is when I search for a result I know exists, and I know that Google knows it exists, but it floods me with pages and pages of things it thinks I “should” see instead.
starman@programming.dev 11 months ago
Try using DuckDuckGo. It’s not perfect, but I like it a lot more that Google.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I’m too young, but I think I’ve read that we’ve already been there, when expert systems written in Lisp were all the rage, and you would write them questions. Of course, the percentage of humanity to ever see such a system was slim.