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I agree about DDG, but I find Kagi worth paying for.
A very valuable service for its price. Also translate.kagi.com is much better than Google’s one.
there's also bing, which does not cost money to use.
Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
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I'll be honest.... I'm puzzled why OP did a web-search (i.e. used a business to find) 'midjourny' rather than simply entering the known URL. How times change.
Do you bother to remember known URL's? Is it midjourney.ai or midjourney.com? Is my health plan oscar.com or oscarhealth.com? Repeat ad infinitum. I have better things to spend my brain power on remembering. Fortunately, my browser will autocomplete the URLs for sites I frequently use, but a lot of sites I want to visit for the first time.
Throw in the fact that known bad actors will purchase common typos of domains like this and potentially setup websites to fish for credentials or push malware and it's something best avoided.
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#673They do the same thing on the Play Store, for example I just searched for Firefox and the first result is a sponsored spot for Opera. Does Apple do that on the App Store? A funnier example: searching for Amazon gives Temu as the first result. Searching for Temu gives Shein as the first result. Searching for Shein gives Shein as the first result! ...but only because they outbid everyone else for the ad spot on their o…
Apple is even worse. Try searching for Grok in the app store and it will be almost impossible to find due to some deal they have with OpenAI.
I just searched Grok and Grok is both the top ad and the first result. OpenAI is second.
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Domain names is how you do this reliably. This is why everyone should use a password manager. It makes phishing much, much harder to do.
There are no best practices for domain names, there's nothing that can differentiate between NPM and a fraudster from hosting "npmjs.help". It also doesn't help when you have to visit a new domain for the first time, which tends to be the case when looking up novel information.
If you're trying to do something for the first time with a big company, you usually know the domain name. Like Google is google.com. Or for something like your bank, it'll be printed on your credit card.
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#675I use an ad blocker, so I don't worry about sponsored links for fake products appearing above genuine ones. Also, this isn't just a Google problem; Bing has it too. My issue with Google is that it includes YouTube results in the main search results even though there's a separate Videos tab.
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#676Late to the party here but I made a browser extension that helps with this called Cat Search. It categorizes the search results and allows you to vote on them so you can ignore/downvote/banish the results you don't want
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#677I will never use Gemini for this reason. The enshittification of Search is so treacherously disgraceful and user-hostile, that I have no faith that the same fate won't occur with Gemini as well.
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#678This makes me sad because I’m old enough to remember when I left Altavista/Lycos/Yahoo for Google because of the obnoxious sponsored search results.
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#679They still get away with it as ‘only’ 1% complain and Google thinks they don’t matter. We built our entire company for that 1%.
How is Kagi for non-US folks? I've tried switching to DDG a while back but the experience for me, living outside the US, was not great. Sure, programming related searches were pretty good, but everything else was not. Does Kagi have a better localized experience?
I'm in Singapore and Kagi is great. Been using it for a couple fo years now.
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Can you in principle sue people buying these ads for trademark infringement? (I realize in practice the answer is that it's not worth the game of whack-a-mole.)
Where is the trademark infringement? It's like honda buying an advert outside a VW dealership.
No, this is more like Honda putting a portal in front of the main door of the VW dealership that transports people into their showroom instead.