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submitted 1 year ago by leninmummy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[-] jocanib@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not a paywall on information. What you're paying for is a better search engine and better privacy. People have to be paid to provide you with that and, if you don't want to pay them with cash, you can go and pay another search engine with your time and data.

[-] Misconduct@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, the old paywall with extra steps. So let's take that further... In the future google has devolved even more than it has now. So it's just basically a misinformational mess riddled with ads. I guess to have access to reliable and non-predatory links/info you gotta now have the money for it. How much money will of course increase as any company gets established of course further pushing lower income people out.

And don't even pretend this is far stretched. People struggling to get by get boned by shit like this all the time.

It's too abusable. I don't like it at all. I also don't like the idea of the government having full control of the internet/information either. I don't know what the solution is but locking information behind money, even if it's in a roundabout way, is not a good solution.

[-] wings@lemmy.perthchat.org -2 points 1 year ago

So in other words, it's a paywall on information.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Well no. The information is still there. It’s an index of that information

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