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 months ago
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 1 month ago
You can disable the AI settings in options. Or manually set “noai.duckduckgo.com”
libewa@feddit.org 2 months ago
DDG allows you to disable ads and AI in the settings!
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
laughs in Kagi
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 months 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 months 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 months ago
SearXNG is really easy to self-host
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 month 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
That’s the reason we should get rid of publicly traded companies.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
grranibal@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Are you exaggerating with the “illegal not to provide value” part?
tabris@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
OpenAI had the same playbook.
khanh@lemmy.zip 1 month 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)
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s what happens when companies go public. The ideals of the company go out the door and they care about is profits
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 1 month ago
Mild abstraction?
That is far too kind.
Wildly corrupted and monetized via algorithm.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month 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 1 month ago
That’s hilarious, especially when the the regular search button had almost zero filtering.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month 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 months 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 months ago
Back then running on FreeBSD 2.X.
Dagobertdelta@feddit.nl 2 months ago
And no Kubernetes cluster needed to serve a search box. 😉
1984@lemmy.today 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I don’t remember his name, but he got moved to the education department.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
yeah it was cool back then. but like everything online, profit motives drive idiotic changes
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lemmy is better than Reddit.
For now.
libewa@feddit.org 2 months 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 months ago
Don’t Be Evil ☝️
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 months 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 months ago
Back then when human rights were cool
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 months ago
That's the hook.
davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 month ago
(They were only able to do this at the time because they were being propped up by the CIA!)
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember using it back in the day because it was the only one fast enough for 54KB.
danhab99@programming.dev 2 months ago
“reward them with a visit” sent me over the edge
jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
…no morals, no care for humankind…
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My how the turntables
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’tbe evil