Comment on Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
Chozo@kbin.social 5 months agoThinking Google is "the internet" is probably part of the problem.
Comment on Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
Chozo@kbin.social 5 months agoThinking Google is "the internet" is probably part of the problem.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
100% this. Google is killing Google. We just need to embrace that death and start using and promoting better alternatives.
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 5 months ago
Ecoisa!
They just planted 200 million trees.
dojan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve heard of Ecosia, but I’ve never heard of how exactly their model works. It sounds to good to be true, so I’ve always written it off as bullshit.
robotica@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ahh yes, the classic “it’s not 100% good, so it’s 100% bad” thinking
Octopus1348@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Here are their financial reports.
blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-pla…
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kagi is nice
Amir@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Another paid service that has no reason not to enshittify
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What is the alternative if we need a searchable index of the internet? Self host? Participate in a community driven swarm? Is that possible or even feasible for us to do? I’d love to see such a thing. It would be quite interesting to learn about the architecture of it, especially ways that the tech prevents gaming the search results, but I have yet to see something like that.
Or are you suggesting that internet search should be done by a non-profit or government agency that we fund with tax dollars?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly, I hope it’s around long enough. Right now it’s very good and rapidly improving. Enshittification by definition only happens when a service is large enough and successful enough. Until that happens, I’m going to keep using what for me is the best search option.
Let’s face it. Search is a fundamental necessity of the internet. How many models can functionally work?
It could be free for the user, but supported by ads. We’ve seen how that works. Maybe it’s run its course.
It could be ad-free and paid for by users. The competitive incentive at least is to give users the best possible experience.
It could be entirely free and provided as a utility. Literally no one is asking for a government run Internet.
Maybe there’s some futuristic solution like an Open Source distributed network in which users run the search themselves. As far as I know nobody has come up with a search that doesn’t require a massive database with enormous costs.