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Remember AOL, anyone? And so, we've come full circle.

by bobsoap 7y ago

t34543 7y ago
Keywords are back. Everything old is new again.
- Frost1x 7y ago
  Computing technology goes in circles it seems. We're also back to the mainframe era where we push all our computing to remote resources. I recall an infamous Apple ad shunning IBM as big brother near the beginning of the PC revolution. Now we have the illusion of generalized computing tied to all sorts of external services.
fortran77 7y ago
Between google and facebook, we have AOL. You can stay in their silos all day and never "really" be on the World Wide Web as it was originally envisioned.
bsdubernerd 7y ago
In my tech circle, almost everyone has switched to another search engine (ddg mostly, startpage, bing), which is quite telling. I noticed as I spot them in a search result page while together, not because they told me. This was an eye opener. I initially _had_ to because the search itself became unreliable for me (finding technical terms is now a frustration in quoting and checking for "missing from the page: term"), but other search engines (like ddg) are not better in this area. Issues with AMP links though made me permanently switch the default search engine entirely. I now use google as a backup, reluctantly and in combination with others, exactly how I was using altavista and yahoo eons ago. I would have never imagined this would happen. But if I ask _any_ other non-tech person, google is still the only search engine they know (or even don't know) about.
- filesystem 7y ago
  I have tried to switch to DDG as my primary a few times now. It works great for basic searches, but I still go to google when I’m troubleshooting something and need answers fast. DDG just isn’t there yet in terms of time-to-answer.
  - bsdubernerd 7y ago
    I'm not 100% happy with DDG either, it just needs to be less frustrating than google on the average, which lowers the bar to competition a lot.
  - udkyo 7y ago
    DDG is fine when you need help with a problem a lot of people bump up against frequently, but its helpfulness nosedives when your journey takes you off the beaten track.
- tiborsaas 7y ago
  Where do you live? In my tech circle, pretty much everybody uses Google I haven't seen anyone DDG-ing or even mentioning switching away from google. I've seen some FF users though :)

Remember AOL, anyone? And so, we've come full circle.

t34543 7y ago

Keywords are back. Everything old is new again.

Frost1x 7y ago
Computing technology goes in circles it seems. We're also back to the mainframe era where we push all our computing to remote resources. I recall an infamous Apple ad shunning IBM as big brother near the beginning of the PC revolution. Now we have the illusion of generalized computing tied to all sorts of external services.

fortran77 7y ago

Between google and facebook, we have AOL. You can stay in their silos all day and never "really" be on the World Wide Web as it was originally envisioned.

bsdubernerd 7y ago

In my tech circle, almost everyone has switched to another search engine (ddg mostly, startpage, bing), which is quite telling. I noticed as I spot them in a search result page while together, not because they told me. This was an eye opener. I initially _had_ to because the search itself became unreliable for me (finding technical terms is now a frustration in quoting and checking for "missing from the page: term"), but other search engines (like ddg) are not better in this area. Issues with AMP links though made me permanently switch the default search engine entirely. I now use google as a backup, reluctantly and in combination with others, exactly how I was using altavista and yahoo eons ago. I would have never imagined this would happen. But if I ask _any_ other non-tech person, google is still the only search engine they know (or even don't know) about.

filesystem 7y ago
I have tried to switch to DDG as my primary a few times now. It works great for basic searches, but I still go to google when I’m troubleshooting something and need answers fast. DDG just isn’t there yet in terms of time-to-answer.
- bsdubernerd 7y ago
  I'm not 100% happy with DDG either, it just needs to be less frustrating than google on the average, which lowers the bar to competition a lot.
- udkyo 7y ago
  DDG is fine when you need help with a problem a lot of people bump up against frequently, but its helpfulness nosedives when your journey takes you off the beaten track.
tiborsaas 7y ago
Where do you live? In my tech circle, pretty much everybody uses Google I haven't seen anyone DDG-ing or even mentioning switching away from google. I've seen some FF users though :)