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

[cable@verse.averagedood.xyz]

@ocean@raru.re Not only google, youtube too, try to search something, and it probably search nosense things or shorts. IDK if another google service are geting worst too...

[kevin999@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ocean Search "ten blue links" and follow the instructions for making your default browser google-web. The udf=14? tag improves results significantly. Check my syntax on that...

[volcano@nerdculture.de]

@ocean use DuckDuckGo.com

[frankcat@mstdn.social]

@ocean I guess we need to skip straight to page 2 of Google search results (but mind the hidden bodies)

[benjohn@todon.nl]

@gsuberland @MisterMaker @osman @seq @morgunkorn @kagihq DDG? … I guess this is one conversation where no one can say “let me google that for you”

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aetios @ocean the guy responsible for that is the guy that killed yahoo search

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@msbellows @mark @ocean As luck would have it, our internet search player is compatible with both Google and Bing, also a myriad of other “formats” that would not contain AI.

[trisweb@m.trisweb.com]

@ocean

[tbodt@mastodon.social]

@postie @ocean did you find a link to the court documents

[els@sfba.social]

@ocean @pluralistic created a term for this corporate behavior. He calls it “enshittification” and he’d written a lot about it.

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@ocean also confirmed true...

[trittriton@shelter.moe]

@ocean We already knew, but a reminder is always welcome:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[dcatoffm@mastodon.social]

@kevin999
@ocean

Unfortunately udm=14 appears to be getting stripped out of URL after search, and I'm getting the local product purchase results.

Google warned a couple months ago it was going to enshitify, I mean, "AI enhance," the web results.. I guess it's here.

&udm=14 Search Hack: Could It Be In Danger Of Breaking?

My popular single-serving site that works around Google’s AI snippets could, unfortunately, see an infusion of AI soon. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet. (tedium.co)

[ochotonidknight@meemu.org]

@jackemled @TerrorBite @aetios @ocean Call me a conspirator.

[alexjusino@mastodon.social]

@ocean that is just evil

[jmccyoung@mstdn.social]

@wonka @ocean @pluralistic And in fact @pluralistic has an excellent series about this at: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-understood/episode/16142603-introducing-understood-who-broke-the-internet (or what I'm sure will be excellent - I've only listened to the first so far)

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ocean the GDPR really got them spinning. but they would have gotten there eventually anyway.

[m0xee@nosh0b10.m0xee.net]

@bigmattoidchimpin@annihilation.social @WandererUber@poa.st @ocean@raru.re
Ha-ha-ha-ha! Yeah, that's exactly why I called it machine-assisted translation — it wasn't a translation per se, more like a rough draft to work with. If you were doing translation commercially it could save you some time, but you still had to speak both languages to work with it. Software like that often included tools for proofreading and additional dictionaries you could plug in as it couldn't even detect the context — the field the text is from and you had to give it a few kicks in the back to get better results: that's a medical text, that's an engineering article, etc. Using wrong dictionaries could give you really funny results
The technology later got adopted in a more mainstream way, but the results were… yeah, like that 🤭
When I use Google Translate via SimplyTranslate today I get thrown back to those days: like WTF is this?!!! This word obviously has different meaning in this context! I'm using it to translate posts in foreign languages on Fedi and it's still somewhat usable for that, but in its current form I sure won't be using it to write comments in foreign languages. I'm just not confident about the results AT ALL

[m0xee@nosh0b10.m0xee.net]

@Cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com @ocean@raru.re
Noticed that too! I'm keeping no cookies — they are getting cleaned up as soon as I close the tab, Google should know nothing about the region. The IP addresses I'm using are detected either as US or as Polish in all the GeoIP databases, and yet Español… where did THAT come from?

[warnercrocker@mastodon.social]

@ocean Do you have a link to that info on Google that you can share? Thanks in advance.