Topic: Google is terrible now.

Anonymous A started this discussion 1 year ago #121,305

Fucking sucks. Shitty SEO spam results and irrelevant nonsense. I miss the days you could type "that one film with the guy from Spaceballs" and it worked.

DuckDuckGo uses Bing results which also sucked last time I tried it.

boof joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 9 minutes later[^] [v] #1,326,488

Is it Honey I Shrank the Kids?

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 36 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,505

@previous (boof)
*shrunk. And yes, it's grammatically wrong.

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boof replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,525

Honey I Shrekked the Kids

Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 28 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,537

Try Kagi?

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 3 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,547

@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
Don't you have to pay for that one?

Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 1 year ago, 37 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,552

@previous (E)
That ensures they keep their customers happy.

Anonymous E replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,563

@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
I just looked. 5 bucks a month for 300 searches isn't that bad. Especially to get away from google's bs.

Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 1 year ago, 31 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,566

@previous (E)
It's like old Google, before it got pozzed.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 12 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,599

Mojeek is one ok alternative alongside the likes of searX/SearXNG.

tteh !MemesToDNA joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,688

Google's reverse image search is also noticeably worse. Half the time it forces you into Google Lens (even on desktop Chrome now, after the latest update) which insists on showing you products first instead of general visual matches. In general its results are just crappier. It doesn't even allow searches for faces anymore! And it's far too overzealous in detecting them; I've had searches for cats return the "Results for people are limited, try again" error lately.

I've found Yandex's reverse image search to be pretty impressive, and their general search results are usually decent. I've used Yandex Mail since 2013 (for unimportant/throwaway shit) and it's also grate.

tteh !MemesToDNA double-posted this 1 year ago, 7 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,689

@1,326,537 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
@1,326,563 (E)
I dunno, isn't Kagi basically just querying Google/Bing/Yandex search APIs and throwing the results back to you with some ✨AI✨ adjustment/enhancement thrown in? I see they have their own crawler but they don't publish any index stats which makes me sceptical.

I'd easily use the 300 monthly searches up in a single hectic workday. :(

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Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,691

@previous (tteh !MemesToDNA)
At the moment yes. But it also skips all the ads, AI overview blocking half the page bullshit, "helpful" sentiment analysis, etc.

I do expect them to move more towards their own crawler soon. They only just barely crossed 50k users.

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Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 17 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,326,760

@1,326,563 (E)

> $5 for 300 search

Ahahaha

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