Submitted 5 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research
A year long study shows what you’ve suspected: Google Search is getting worse.::undefined
Member when Wired ran the article “How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet” and then pulled it after pushback, specifically claims that they had misinterpreted what Google was actually saying?
High editorial standards aside, it’s good to know they were vindicated in spirit.
I stopped using google search around 2018. The reason? Their ads were serving literal virus-based links of scams that pretend to be real companies.
Obviously you didn’t actually look at the paper this article is about. While Google has been getting worse over time, DDG is even worse. It is the worst browser by the metric they are measuring (DDG is 31% spam vs. Bing at 23% and Google at 9%)
I would recommend trying a SearXNG instance if you haven’t before. You can combine results from multiple sources. I use Google as my main source while also having access to the DDG-style !bangs.
Exactly the same here.
I also use DDG
But whenever I need to search more in-depth, I use perplexity.ai
It makes the comparison for you and summarises, also gives links to where that info is found. Makes it way easier to find the more obscure information. But it is too slow to use for everything.
SEO, the methodology of ruining Google’s algorithm and enshittifying everything for marketing gains.
Google’s algorithm has gotten worse, and it honestly wasn’t great to begin with (gave too much weight to the biggest sites not the best). Now they over generalize your query and flat out ignore half your keywords because it costs more money to serve a non cached result.
I am shocked. SHOCKED I tell ya!
I’m interested in self hosted web search engines to run at home instead of using Google is SearXNG a good replacement or are there other better suggestions?
Other than self hosting a search engine what are some good web search providers? Most of my device browsers list the following default options:
If you are going to self-host a search engine, I would recommend two things to retain some degree of anonymity:
Otherwise, finding somebody else’s instance would be good for both you and for them. There’s no shame in not running one yourself.
There is also Kagi, a paid search engine. They recently gained some controversy due to “partnering” with Brave, but quickly backtrack on the “partner” announcement.
I have used Kagi for several weeks and can’t go back. I can finally find things on the internet again and I don’t want to lose that again.
Yes, SearXNG is a good self-hosted replacement.
Tbh… The fact that we depend 99% of the time of a company or company which usually if not always is for profit to be able to find stuff on Internet, sucks.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s the life cycle of tech. New innovative technology gets invented, takes the market by storm, generates millions in value, investors get their hands on it, generates tens of millions, becomes publically traded, corpos inflate its value, bills come due, technology sabotaged to squeeze out any remaining profit, tech become withered husk of its formal self in a space it occupys alone and we get to eat shit salad every time we have to use it
moistclump@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Say it with me folks: capitalism leads to enshittification. Every. Damn. Time.