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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven't used Google for awhile now. It just became an ad-ridden hellhole.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do people not have ad blockers anymore?

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's not what we're talking about. Ad blockers don't do anything to fix Google's search algorithm

[–] Steve@communick.news 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's why I like Kagi. I do almost anything to avoid ads

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Steve@communick.news 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not really no.
Kagi has vastly more features. Most are extremely useful. Including privacy.
And the whole "funding a bigot" complaint strikes me as kind of silly. The "partnership" is just them using the Brave search API, no different than they do Google, Bing, and a few others. I even have Brave as one of my sanity check browsers when something doesn't work on Firefox.

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

Privacy doesn't exist without the ability to compile and self host.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Steve@communick.news 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's silly to try to avoid doing anything that may, in some way support a bigot. They are literally everywhere. Even Gandhi was racist.

It's just the payment info, not the searches. And since their users are their only revenue source, because they aren't selling ads, they have no reason to save searches.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Steve@communick.news 2 points 10 months ago

You might think that under capitalism or something, animal cruelty might be a huge problem too, but I doubt you would buy bullets with the express intent of shooting dogs. (I hope.)

This seems like a non-sequitur. I don't understand your point here.