solarpunk memes

Searching "SpaceX starship" on Google just now in Firefox with adblock origin, not logged into Google, on mobile I get:

• Summary of the vehicle from Wikipedia with relevant pictures on the first card
• The SpaceX page for the vehicle on the second card
• Relevant videos on the third card
• SpaceX's twitter on the fourth card

Doing the same in mobile chrome, logged in, no ad block:

• Adverts for starship toys in the first card
• Relevant news stories in the second card
• Wikipedia summary
• SpaceX's starship page
• Relevant videos
• SpaceX twitter

So if you're getting other crap, use ad block. I presume the comic was made while Google was adding LLM results, which they aren't doing now. I can't say I noticed the LLM results while they were included.

I switched to DuckDuckGo for a few years, then went to Ecosia for a while, and now I'm using searx. I'm not sure how searx prioritises the results, so I'm still adjusting to it, but overall it works okay.

If search engines really wanted to fix this--and it would require Google and Bing taking action, not smaller search engines--they could de-list any company that engaged in SEO so that nothing from that company showed up in searches at all.

Use searx: https://searx.github.io/searx/ It provides the expected results and do not track you. You can even host it yourself

Or you can take a look at the list of instances here: https://searx.space/

don't use google. basically any engine is better. I would recommend using a searxng instance. Soi that nobody can ever enshittify it ever again

gemini://gemplex.space/search

You're still using google?

Maybe if less people sucked the dick of LLMs then it wouldn't pervade every facet of our lives?