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submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

A year long study shows what you've suspected: Google Search is getting worse.::undefined

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[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago

It's the life cycle of tech. New innovative technology gets invented, takes the market by storm, generates millions in value, investors get their hands on it, generates tens of millions, becomes publically traded, corpos inflate its value, bills come due, technology sabotaged to squeeze out any remaining profit, tech become withered husk of its formal self in a space it occupys alone and we get to eat shit salad every time we have to use it

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Say it with me folks: capitalism leads to enshittification. Every. Damn. Time.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago
[-] LWD@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] just_change_it@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

SEO, the methodology of ruining Google's algorithm and enshittifying everything for marketing gains.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Google's algorithm has gotten worse, and it honestly wasn't great to begin with (gave too much weight to the biggest sites not the best). Now they over generalize your query and flat out ignore half your keywords because it costs more money to serve a non cached result.

[-] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I stopped using google search around 2018. The reason? Their ads were serving literal virus-infected links of scams that pretend to be real companies.

Nothing has changed since.

Duckduckgo for life I guess

[-] ayaya@lemdro.id 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I recommend reading the actual paper. DDG is actually by far the worst by their measures. Even though Google has gotten worse, it's results are still massively superior to the competition. 9% spam compared to 31% for DDG and 23% for Bing. That's a huge difference.

I would recommend trying a SearXNG instance if you haven't before. You can combine results from multiple sources. I use Google as my main source while also having access to the DDG-style !bangs.

[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 1 points 9 months ago

Exactly the same here.

[-] ElJefe@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

I am shocked. SHOCKED I tell ya!

[-] i_promise_nothing@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I’m interested in self hosted web search engines to run at home instead of using Google is SearXNG a good replacement or are there other better suggestions?

Other than self hosting a search engine what are some good web search providers? Most of my device browsers list the following default options:

  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Bing
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Ecosia
[-] LWD@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 9 months ago

There is also Kagi, a paid search engine. They recently gained some controversy due to "partnering" with Brave, but quickly backtrack on the "partner" announcement.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have used Kagi for several weeks and can't go back. I can finally find things on the internet again and I don't want to lose that again.

[-] sonovebitch@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, SearXNG is a good self-hosted replacement.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Tbh... The fact that we depend 99% of the time of a company or companies which usually if not always are for profit to be able to find stuff on Internet, sucks.

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