They don’t have a monopoly on good search results. I rarely use Google anymore and I do not miss it at all.
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thehatfox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SEO has been a plague in search engines for almost as long as they have existed. Unfortunately combatting it is an endless cat and mouse game, as there will always be some who will devise new ways to game the system. With how commercialised the web has become there’s enormous incentive to do so.
I’m also not convinced Google has much intention of really fixing it. They already have a monopoly on search, and as an advertising company are unlikely to want to upset the big media companies exploiting their search engine.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Zerfallen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I moved to Kagi, and I really like it. It’s a bit expensive though, but the experience is really nice, and you know where you stand with them as a customer, regarding their priorities/motivations.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I’d use Kagi, but anonymous searching is impossible because you need an accoint to use the search, due to it being a paid service.
Also, it’s quite expensive when other options are free. I get why they do it this way, but it’s just not for me.
Melt@lemm.ee 8 months ago
And Google is still better at getting me what I want than their competitor. I get what I want from Bing 2/10 times and Bing fails every time it’s a deeper topic
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Google actually has an incentive not to make search too good. That means less time looking through search results, seeing ads, and less time hopping between 5 different sites trying to find what you need, seeing ads on each one.
Ad networks are a plague.
don@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is sometimes ominously referred to as perverse incentive.