I remember before ai I would just find what I needed with the.first link. Now I need to scroll past 3 ad links. Even duckduckgo has sponsored links.
You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out
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Emi@ani.social 2 weeks ago
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes. I miss the days when the Wikipedia article was the first result. Now, even with ddg, to get to the Wikipedia article I have to add wikipedia to the query… This is so sad…
unknownman@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You can disable the AI settings in options. Or manually set “noai.duckduckgo.com”
libewa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
DDG allows you to disable ads and AI in the settings!
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
laughs in Kagi
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They’ve gotta pay the bills somehow. If you’re not paying for it, someone else is, and that mean either selling ad spots, or selling your info.
defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Not really the case with Google though, at least not anymore. They have more money than ever. They could very well go with less ads, but they instead shove more and more down people’s throats.
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
SearXNG is really easy to self-host
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even without the ads, I can’t get past the SRO or AI slop. I don’t even understand how to search things anymore.
I was looking for tips on picking blackberries and the top 5 results were 10 page long essays of mindless garbage with one sentence in the middle somewhere that said “wear gloves”. No fucking shit eh.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I mean, I get it, servers cost money, traffic costs money.
But there’s a little gray zone between going broke and sucking out every cent possible. Isn’t making enough money enough?
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shareholders need ever increasing value or they will sell their shares. In the US at least, it is illegal to not provide shareholders with value. The only way to reliably get value is to fuck over your customers at every turn and fire half of your employees every few years
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s the reason we should get rid of publicly traded companies.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
grranibal@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Are you exaggerating with the “illegal not to provide value” part?
tabris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the word of Jim Stephanie Stirling, “They don’t just want a lot of money. They want all the money.”
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
See, this is why I would suggest to switch to the post-scarsity model of Star Trek. Then they can have all the money, but it’s completely worthless.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When you’re a Trillion Dollar company, you don’t need MORE money. You make enough to make everything run without additional income.
But obviously a trillion dollars is still not enough. We need more.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
become a monopoly by roleplaying as ethical and efficient
fuck your userbase because they don’t have nearly as good alternatives
schema@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
OpenAI had the same playbook.
khanh@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
i’d argue that that playbook belongs to anthropic. everything about claude’s font and color scheme screams “ethical, productive, efficient, humanist” (we all know that’s far from the case)
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
i’d rather go back to browsing the 1998 internet on a webTV box than this modern bullshit. no offense to anyone.
the modern internet is a heavily propagandized mild abstraction of real life. the old internet was ‘the internet.’ it was a playground for nerds, misfits, shut-ins and the regular folk who made the mistake of logging on and trying to talk to the rest of us.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mild abstraction?
That is far too kind.
Wildly corrupted and monetized via algorithm.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s what happens when companies go public. The ideals of the company go out the door and they care about is profits
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
My mom told me never to click “I’m feeling lucky” because she thought it had something to do with porn because it’s a phrase people would say about sex.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s hilarious, especially when the the regular search button had almost zero filtering.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
My mom was weirdly prudish in the '90s and early '00s, I don’t really know why. Like she wouldn’t let me watch Dexter’s Lab because she thought it was gross or something? Idk. Weird time.
Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s how the internet worked out. Everything started out awesome to attract huge numbers of users, then slowly started collecting more and more of our data to use and sell while ramming in more and more ads.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Back then running on FreeBSD 2.X.
Dagobertdelta@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
And no Kubernetes cluster needed to serve a search box. 😉
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What is funny is that its not even better now compared to then. It used to be super fast and found everything on the web in an instant.
Abd today, we’ll, you know how Google search is…
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Google once stated that their primary goal was to get you off of Google property as quickly as possible- IE deliver your search result and get you where you want to go. That was the exact opposite of every other major website at the time (search engines, ‘portals’, etc) which wanted to keep you in.
It’s what made Google great. They were laser focused on the best search experience.
Now their search kinda sucks, it’s all AI and fuzzy logic and whatnot and even with quotes and Verbatim it STILL doesn’t just search for what I typed in not what you thought I wanted
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Here’s ads, misleading ai slop we generated from stolen content, and forty links to AI generated content that’s probably even worse. You might find something human on page 7 of the results. Oops it’s a dead link lmao.”
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A former high-up at Google has stated that they intentionally made the search engine worse a few years ago so that people would see more ads and click on more sponsored links. Now, the best result is #15 in the list, on average.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t remember his name, but he got moved to the education department.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yeah it was cool back then. but like everything online, profit motives drive idiotic changes
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lemmy is better than Reddit.
For now.
libewa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Unlike Google, Lemmy (and Mastodon etc.) are FLOSS, so if one instance enshittifies, we can move, even to different ones, fediblock that instance, and continue on. This is the problem with Bluesky: You cannot (realistically) self-host all the ATProto infrastructure, or federate with anyone while not using some service from Bluesky.
HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t Be Evil ☝️
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. For now. Give it a decade.
alecbowles@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Back then when human rights were cool
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
That's the hook.
davetortoise@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
(They were only able to do this at the time because they were being propped up by the CIA!)
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I remember using it back in the day because it was the only one fast enough for 54KB.
danhab99@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
“reward them with a visit” sent me over the edge
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
…no morals, no care for humankind…
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My how the turntables
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’tbe evil