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Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by schaefer »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #254

I don't know if it's Google that is dying. It's more like a large segment of the public facing internet is wilting. The user experience without an adblocker is almost nothing but ads, popovers, permission requests and chat boxes, sign-up-to-the-newsletter requests. And these are the websites that aren't trying to bait-and-switch you For example, this is the screen I'm showed when I navigate to www.producthunt.com: ht…

Try the search engine kagi.com It just works.

Google stopped being a search company, and is an advertisement company now.

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by Jensson »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #363
Jensson wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is impressive that Google manages to rank reddit threads very well though. They don't have reddits internal data, do they look at reddit upvote scores or what? Why would the helpful thread be higher ranked than all the content spam on reddit? Google must do something really clever in order to be so good at indexing useful reddit threads.

Like giving Reddit a higher “page score” than other websites?

No, I mean why does it find the right reddit thread instead any of the billions of other reddit threads? That can't be trivial to do since reddit themselves don't do it well.

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by candiodari »

Anyone else notice that general solutions to problems just aren't on Google ... and aren't on the internet at all?

We used to have blogs, even twitter and facebook, even things like phpbb and the many internet fora, which was "normal". These have disappeared, either entirely or behind a pay- or registration wall, and are clearly not accessible to Google.

I wonder if the problem is Google, or the web in general.

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by JohnFen »

auggierose wrote: post #344
danaris wrote: post #303

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> Our attention is the only valuable thing left. That's...just not true, though. You know what's still more valuable than our attention? Our money. The only reason they want our attention is to get our money. A big part of the problem is how many people simply don't have enough money, due to the stagnation of real wages and the increase in the cost of housing, health care, and higher education, among other things. If…

Nah, that's not true. People just don't like to spend money, especially when they are rich.

Most people in the US love spending money. It's considered a recreational activity.

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by kjs3 »

schaefer wrote: post #371
marginalia_nu wrote: post #254

I don't know if it's Google that is dying. It's more like a large segment of the public facing internet is wilting. The user experience without an adblocker is almost nothing but ads, popovers, permission requests and chat boxes, sign-up-to-the-newsletter requests. And these are the websites that aren't trying to bait-and-switch you For example, this is the screen I'm showed when I navigate to www.producthunt.com: ht…

Try the search engine kagi.com It just works. Google stopped being a search company, and is an advertisement company now.

Must create account to use a search engine. Hard Nope.

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

My pet beef: why Google hasn't done anything to downrank Pinterest, specifically? It's a pit into which search terms for all sorts of subjects take you, but they (unethically) try their best to stop you from finding the original source content. Instead taking you deeper and deeper into their own recursively self-defined world of internal pins, hiding the outlinks and original attribution.

(Also: vile because it's full of self-harm and eating disorder content that played its part in irrevocably damaged a loved one.)

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by dighp »

ilyt wrote: post #296
tokinonagare wrote: post #238

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Try asking why Aragorn is a black man in the future LotR set on /r/magicTCG and see how long you can ask a question on something related to a product in that hobby after that. There are other swift ways to get ban, like noting that the body shape of some characters were changed drastically in-between old and newer cards. Basically anything going against the pandering of WotC to some twitter users.

I got banned out of /r/games for asking "what rights trans people don't have that other humans do?" under post about someone yelling "trans rights are human rights" about Hogwart's legacy. Not being snarky at all, just curious (as I'm not from US and don't really get what the fuss is about). Still haven't got a coherent answer out of anyone I asked, just insults

It's a good question, and one that their activists don't like answering because "the right to impose oneself on spaces designated solely for the opposite sex" isn't what most people would accept as a human right. So they ignore or block or ban or attack instead of engaging reasonably.

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by auggierose »

JohnFen wrote: post #374
auggierose wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, that's not true. People just don't like to spend money, especially when they are rich.

Most people in the US love spending money. It's considered a recreational activity.

Hmmh, so why do so many people complain about paying for all the different streaming services like Disney plus, Netflix, Amazon prime, etc.? It's really peanuts compared to the value delivered.

Re: Google Search Is Dying (2022)

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Post by huy77 »

It's not dying for me. My Google + Youtube usage is still as high as ever if not higher because of Youtube. ChatGPT/OpenAI/other models makes Google Lens more noticeable. Do you know you can generate the interior of your room using AI and Google offers the search for products based on the generated image just by a right-click on Chrome?
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