It’s not even that their results suck, per se, but they straight up ignore most of my search query and focus on one or two words only. Obviously that makes your search results suck.
[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
Submitted 4 months ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
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venoft@lemmy.world 4 months ago
tempest@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It is just a matter of incentives.
Remember Google is paid by advertising dollars. So the incentives are to feed you the maximum amount of ads with the minimum amount of content so that you don’t leave for something else.
Fermion@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Is GN going to put Google on a Performance Improvement Plan like they did with Asus?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Performance Improvement Plan
LOL this is brilliant
sunzu@kbin.run 4 months ago
Reverse UNO?
Unlocalhost@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You either die a hero or live and watch yourself turn into a villian.
Tom’s hardware, woot, and most recently donut media just to name a few. All were once the place to go, they all were bought out by bigger interest and eventually became the villian.
pelotron@midwest.social 4 months ago
Donut - how? All the giga-sponsors they take lately?
blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 months ago
They’ve been bought by an entertainment parent company, which is why the glut of sponsorships along with their content leaning towards pure entertainment instead of including educational and DIY content. Zach and Jeremiah started their own thing recently and explain in their first video.
devilish666@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Google is getting worse everyday and yet we still depends on it everyday
_sideffect@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s ingrained in many places unfortunately. Like aws and Amazon
einlander@lemmy.world 4 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
My company’s goal seems to be to get themselves more dependent on AWS. They’re always talking about which things we can replace with AWS offerings.
I’m the exact opposite. I’m always looking for how to make the things I use more replaceable. That way if a company goes bad, I only need to replace a small part of my stuff.
If AWS goes bad, I’d feel really bad for out devOPs team…
sunzu@kbin.run 4 months ago
Microsoft, apple? netflix etc
facebook... shit i bet everyone in this thread hitting 3/5 min
irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m slowly moving away to open source, self-hosted applications where possible. Changed search to a combination of Gibiru and Yep. Email to a mailcow server I host on a vps, and I’m moving photos to an Immich server I’m setting up. Home Automation is next, I have a Raspberry Pi 5 to act as the Home Assistant server. And a few other projects in the works to split from Google as much as I can and mostly it is all better.
Gsus4@programming.dev 4 months ago
Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?
Fermion@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Yahoo is still around in some form or another.
Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.
JayTreeman@fedia.io 4 months ago
Too big to fail? Search is only one revenue stream.
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Similar tactic among all the large tech corpos, switch focus to IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, become the backbone of the modern computing landscape.
It’s basically a slow switch to becoming critical international infrastructure like power grids, water ways, and gas/oil pipelines.
This all while locking you in as much as possible and milking as much value as they can squeeze.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That’d be advertising, and by a mile.
eee@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I mean IBM is still traded but it’s a shadow if it’s former self
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ICQ shut down yesterday and it was relatively small to begin with so I‘m afraid Google will be around for decades to come and possibly outlive most or even all of us.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
"Google is getting worse. Now watch me talk about the situation on a youtube video. Youtube is a property owned by google.
frezik@midwest.social 4 months ago
You know who is most fed up with YouTube’s policies? Content creators on YouTube. They’re locked in, they know it, and they hate it.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 4 months ago
Just took a look at them, and Rumble is for sure a hard pass. The 2 rows under “news” is all far-right extremist videos, which is great if you are aiming for the Parlor/Truth Social/Nazi and Nazi sympathizers of the internet, but I think you’ll miss most of the world going that toxic on the frontage.
simplejack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You the stones to destroy the stones.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I get what you’re saying, but they use the platform to spread the word quicker and reach a bigger audience.
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You’re so edgy! I’m jelly…
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
And exactly where do you propose they talk about it and actually have people see it?
Wrench@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s weird that they don’t really address the biggest reason Googles algorithm is worse now. The rampant exploitation of SEO.
Bad actors abuse the system in an attempt to be the first result, regardless of relevancy. It’s harder for Google to sift the chaff out than it used to be, because they’re flooded with content claiming to be related to the search keys.
signor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hell yeah, more Wendell.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Getting worse is putting it lightly.
Get the fuck off Google services if you can. Highly recommend Proton mail and drive as a replacement.
wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Moved to Protonmail earlier this year, just cancelled my Drive sub and am looking at switching to Mega
Nikki@lemmy.world 4 months ago
can vouch for mega, been using it for 8 years now with no real issues. only sticking point is file download limits with Firefox, and thats just because im too lazy to download the desktop app
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why did you cancel Drive?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
…tell me more of these proton mail services of which you speak!
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
It’s like Gmail except it has a proper dark mode and Google isn’t reading all your emails
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Been using their paid email, drive and vpn for the last couple of years and their service has been flawless in my experience. Great apps and never had an outage or issues once.
Free versions are available but the paid version is well worth it.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 4 months ago
Is it still viable in 2024 to run a home email server? I used to have a personal Postfix box back in the day.
univers3man@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’d have to be really committed. There’s more admin work than you think to make sure you’re not insecure or getting blocked.
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 4 months ago
I use a cheap VPS to host my email server. It’s a bit easier than running it solely at home, but there’s a lot of annoying work to “verify” yourself. Once you get your DNS records good, you shouldn’t be blocked after that (unlike a home server). It only costs me $5/month plus the domain, which I think is money well spent. Doing the admin work to make sure I’m secure still needs to happen, but I don’t mind that work and find it fun.
frezik@midwest.social 4 months ago
Gmail and other big providers tend to consider new domains to be spam until they’ve proven otherwise. Can’t prove otherwise until you’ve been up and running for a while. Catch-22. The way out of that is to host with an existing provider for a few years.
Does it cut down on spam? Perhaps. Does it favor existing providers like Gmail? Yes, definitely.
Honestly, hosting email has long been difficult to setup, and all the more so if you don’t want your box to be a spam host within three seconds of plugging it in.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would need to see some alternates for Google Drive in that case.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Proton drive is fantastic.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Just signed up after they announced the non-profit and mmigrated all my mail. So far so good.
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But what if Alphabet buys Proton!?
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They went non-profit recently to specifically prevent this from happening.
proton.me/blog/proton-non-profit-foundation
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
duckduckgo and yandex.
even bing is better nowadays.