Facebook's tanking, Google's on it's way down, Amazon's getting broken up. Seems like the long-predicted next economic recession is around the corner
For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
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#292Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn't heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn't recognize the song, so I took to Google. I entered the lyric and added the search terms "lyrics" and "r&b" at the end. Google returned 4 YouTube videos to songs that didn't contain the lyric, a link to a Boyz II Men song on Genius that didn't contain the lyric (good job Google,…
I have the opposite experience most of the time. I’ve been trying to use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but I end up clicking my Google bookmark a lot of the time because the DDG results are so low quality. I have no doubt there are edge cases where Bing/DDG outperform Google, but most of the time I have better luck with Google.
I have found that for technical results, and niche programming, and anything really to do with IT, google gives top results. For just about everything else, use any other search engine.
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#293As I was reading this thread, scrolling down a bit, my whole browser screen turned into a loginwall ad for a Twitter account.
It's amazing to me that people are still donating content to these platforms.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Instead you can go to TikTok where you will find mostly amusing and at times informative content. TikTok has by far the best recommender system I have ever tried. After an hour of use the system had correctly narrowed down my interests of exoplanets, space exploration, technology, and startups. However that also means TikTok is the most hypertuned echochamber. I hope people don't get their political views from TikTo…
Your intuition is correct. According to [1] it can take 2 hours of browsing and interacting with transphobic content to get straight into neo-nazi content. Many people don't ever see such videos, and don't think it's on the platform - it does become a very hypertuned hyperfocused echo chamber. [0] https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-algorithm-leads-...
The web page you linked seems like it was written by someone who lives in a basement and has never logged off of Twitter.
“ We defined “prominent far-right figures/prominent far right talking points” posts as those that contain prominent far-right figures such as Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones…”
“ We defined “racist/white supremacist” posts as those which… support white supremacy by using white supremacist talking points such as “white pride” or “white lives matter.””
So do white lives not matter? Seems like whoever wrote this hates themselves and is racist.
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#295Yeah I’ve noticed this too. But also the rest of the front page is often either seo spam (like those Pinterest links which catch whatever search term you’ve used) or shopping sites. I’ve found google search to be increasingly hostile to its customers. I guess we’re not the customers. Use duckduckgo or something else.
I don't get how Pinterest hasn't been removed from existence by Google. There is literally no one who is ever searching for things that wants a Pinterest link, but the incredible persistence of Google in showing me Pinterest is amazing. Though this kind of goes to the related question: why Google don't allow you to setup your profile to nuke domains from consideration when you search, I do not know - it would complet…
They did have exactly that feature for a while, unless I'm dreaming. But they got rid of it.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried Youtube premium? We always say companies should move out of the ad revenue model and start charging for the services instead of pushing more ads. For me, paying Youtube premium has been a great decision.
Seconding this comment. I grumbled at first about paying for it but frankly after more than a year I’ve come to realize it’s money well spent considering how much use my family gets out of it.
We as a society have become allergic to paying for services. It's understandable but detrimental in the long term.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried Youtube premium? We always say companies should move out of the ad revenue model and start charging for the services instead of pushing more ads. For me, paying Youtube premium has been a great decision.
I'd buy YouTube premium if YouTube was still an independent company. Even if paid YouTube doesn't serve you ads, they are still collecting analytics you and building out your Google profile. No thanks.
They are doing that if you don't pay too.
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#298I'm just gonna throw this out there as I'm noticing it more and more at this point since switching languages.
What the actual F has happened to google search results for programming issues?
I used to be able to google a question and get, more or less, a right answer from a forum or stack overflow.
Recently, many coding tutorial websites have clearly figured out how to hack googles pageranks and now instead of one 'right enough answer', its 5 clone 'tutorial' websites, with all the same crappy answer that isn't actually what I was asking. Like I can't use google for coding questions any more. Not like I was able to previously. Also, Stackoverflow with bangs from ddg are broken and it thinks I'm a robot. No answer except to go to SO directly and search.
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#299Google is a product search engine, if you want to buy something local, or search anything local use google.
For any other query use duck/bing.
I find duck better for general stuff and bing better for programming stuff.
For streaming websites or controversial content use yandex as they bring up random blogs and small unknown websites.
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>Currently it's in free beta with a waitlist (took a week for me) When did you apply? I filled out their survey at the end of december and haven't even received a confirmation email. I tried again a few weeks back with a gmail address, and still nothing. So I guess at least it's already at Google-level customer service.
We found out that many invite emails ended up in spam unfortunately. We will soon send a re-invite to everyone (knowing another email can frustrate those that already got it).
At least for me there's nothing in spam either. And I've tried with both a gmail address as well as a self-hosted one so I'm confident the issue is not on my end.