Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change

• Veraxus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TL;DR; “AI bad, they made some t-shirts, and the owner says some stupid crap sometimes.” 🙄

  As long as the results remain the best and they don’t screw me over, I’m happy to keep paying for them.

  But lets be honest, even Duck Duck Go is better than Google these days. It’s fine if folks don’t want to pay for search, but you’ll have a better experience avoiding Google, either way.

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  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But lets be honest, even Duck Duck Go is better than Google these days.

    I hate to say it, because I love their privacy policy, but it we’re being honest, it’s not. DDG mostly uses Bing, and I struggle to find what I’m after on that engine. I have better results with Brave search, who now run their own index (but their tech bro CEO leaves me nervous at every turn)

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• HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re linking to a halfhearted attempt at an expose written by someone who acts unreasonable towards any attempts at clarification.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not the point though. The point is that the ceo of the company hounds the person with their wall of text over something that they had virtually no exposure on at all. If not for that, it’d have remained completely obscure.

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    • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      virtually no exposure at all

      That is not correct: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011314

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      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wasn’t the explosion of that after the fact?

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• bear@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m gonna keep it real with you, I’ll take “weirdo CEO and optional AI tools” over “corporate entity so powerful that society has literally warped around it, whose primary business model is psychological manipulation” any day of the week

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