You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@ocean that is more like assholification than enshitification

[a_cubed@mastodon.social]

@ocean @lrhodes
Paging @pluralistic

[cattail@mastodon.social]

@ocean I'm not surprised worse quality products affect usage. We see it with shrinkflation. I doubt people are dropping potato chips after they removed 5 chips

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@Galamadryade @ocean that’s just Microsoft Bing in a trenchcoat.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@Erebus_Amauro @ocean hm, they regularily still visit mine… hmyeah but much less…

Is Seznam good? Their fulltextrobot also shows up.

[alleyoop@mastodon.social]

@ocean Ugh. I am so fucking tired of being taken advantage of! Aren't you?

[das_blaue_pony@mastodon.social]

@ocean

[itamarst@hachyderm.io]

@khleedril @ocean They started adding advertising pretty early on, honestly, I think it's just amusing (and sad) to see the path they went down.

[ehay2k@mastodon.social]

@ocean

Oh, @briankrebs

[aarbrk@mstdn.mx]

@itamarst @ocean Great catch with this source! If only we had spent the interim setting up an alternative in the public interest. (Actually, is it too late?)

[wampusmm@beige.party]

@ocean Wow, that’s despicable.

[sheamuspatt@mstdn.ca]

@ocean
Classic #enshittification, as noted by @pluralistic

Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(pluralistic.net)

[terrorbite@meow.social]

@aetios now that it's proven true, you have to find a new conspiracy theory. Sorry, I don't make the rules

@ocean

[catswhocode@twoot.site]

@ocean not surprising.
Thankfully I rarely use them! @aetios

[radioazureus@mastodon.social]

@ocean

DuckDuckGo is smooth sailing in searches

@nixCraft

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@ocean This is really strange. Do people who notice it has gotten even worse than Bing stay on Google anyway? Or do that few people notice?

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@TerrorBite @aetios @ocean I've already found a new one & it has quickly become my favorite. My current conspiracy theory is that everything will be ok.

[quantillion@mstdn.io]

@ocean
This has been the case for decades.
It's one of the reasons I have all of Ggl's URLs uBlocked (+ Privacy Badger).
There are several alternatives. I generally use StartPage & I see no ads.

[urban_hermit@mstdn.social]

@HeptaSean @Paradox @ocean I use a search engine in two ways: 1.) basic information like how to spell a word (auto correct on my phone is crap now - ef Google). For that even the Google AI answer is good enough. Or, 2.) Very specific information on a specific thing that is uncommon. For that Google is crap and ignores specific words in your search so it can produce more common results that it has sold more advertising for. Now even if I use quotes results still favor the 'common' answer.

[oneupthextraman@kind.social]

@ocean I use Bing.