Some of us left it behind quite awhile ago:-).
The problem is that a fuckton of the web is SEO poisoned, so even a better search engine will find garbage because for a lot of subjects garbage is all that’s available.
The best chef in the world can’t turn shit into anything you want to eat.
This is what they want you to think but they're hardly even trying. Google is shitty on purpose because if initial search results are bad, you "engage" more and see more ads. And since they're not worried about competition because google is the default search nearly everywhere -- most people don't even know there are alternatives, google is synonymous with search -- they can enshittify their search as much as they want. https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
That's what I enjoy about kagi: because I can block and rank sources, I get to do some reverse-SEO, and the results are really good with remarkably few adjustments.
I don't understand what you are saying. If some other search methodology were to use the same exact methodology of Google in paying attention to the SEO terms, then obviously it would fall prey to the same thing that killed Google. Similarly if the method was not precisely 100% identical yet still used SEO, then it too would be poisoned.
However, if the search method were to ignore SEO entirely and focus purely on the content of the page, plus other metrics such as number of links to that page, from other highly-ranked websites, but independently of SEO, then it would not be poisoned by SEOs. Although it might suck due to other causes, either related or not.
Anyway it all depends so heavily on what you want to find - e.g. a replacement for Google Maps is harder, and Google Images is also fairly great too.
Doesn't that just use Bing?
i think so, but the results are in any case mostly okay in my experience, and they have an AI feature that ACTUALLY WORKS since it just summarizes relevant parts of wikipedia articles and links you to the precise sections it used.
Yes, but I use it over Bing because Bing filters most of its news articles through MSN and then pressures you to download the app. Either way, both are giving me better results than Google at this point.
DuckDuckGo has AI now.
Oh fuck!
Looks like you can turn it off though - https://duckduckgo.com/settings#aifeatures.
Asked Google assistant today what the withdrawal symptoms of Adderall were... got told the suicide prevention hotline. So, that was fun.
To be fair, any drug of abuse potential will usually trigger SAMSHA links in the US by law. That might have been what you saw, and it's been that way for at least a decade.
That's... Less than helpful.
(Also, I can try to field this one for you: headaches, fatigue, mental fogginess, sometimes temporary depressed mood or irritability, maybe increased appetite?)
WTF is this sexy Garfield
Google has been mining your dreams
Lets check the google results for italy Huh no results?
Today I was trying to look up the syntax for how to search before a certain date on Google. The google AI overview turned out to be wrong
"nope", but it's a 100-word excerpt from Reddit that pops in just as you're about to click a link and shifts everything down.
Well in fairness I've never been to Italy, so it's possible it doesn't exist.
Does Italy exist?
Google: Blue right?
Well i guess i don't really exist then.
I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
I'm in Finland so I can only give a sad forlorn look toward Italy and say "First time?"
Anyway.
Now:
Me: "What's the weather like today?"
Computer: "It'll be 25°C or so."
Me: "How do you know that?"
Computer: "I looked up your location and queried the national weather service."
Soon:
Me: "What's the weather like today?"
Computer: "It'll be 25°C or so."
Me: "How do you know that?"
Computer: "Fuck if I know. I've just learned that is a thing that people apparently say in situations like this."
You: "How do you know that?"
Computer: "u/trollface69420 says 'Its always 25°C or so lol'"
Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, Mothman, Italians. All folklore.
It's worse than broken - every time you use google you encourage them, financially, to make it worse. Stock market capitalism. stop doing it.
I quit using Google over the Manifest bullshit.
The CIA: "we fuckin' knew it!"
It has become so bad for results in Spanish too, that I am now self-hosting SearXNG even though I'm the only one using it in my family lol
I did just ask this question of Google assistant and it worked fine. I asked it about rings as well and it explained the composition of rings and pointed to Saturn as the primary example. I definitely think there has been a degradation in service, but the examples given here actually perform just fine.
Google was broken the moment it started to manipulate, in a biased manner, the search results.
Do we need to? yes and it is harboring the end of privacy, independence, freedom and our right to live. Will we? Nope
Yep
broken, but not broke. Sadly.
Bring back Infoseek
Use https://wiby.me/ for everything but documentation
Denying reality for delusions is always an option.
Well, google's American, and American's like talking about "iddly" a lot. From context it would appear to be related to Italy. So perhaps try googling "does iddly exist" (tldr: it does).
