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They haven't even started their own versions of AdWords. Google's money printing is based on people telling Google what they want in the search bar, and google
by threwaway4392 2y ago
They haven't even started their own versions of AdWords.
Google's money printing is based on people telling Google what they want in the search bar, and google placing ads about what they want right when they ask for it. Today people type what they want in the ChatGPT search bar.
- seper8 2y agoDifference is is that I can just switch to another LLM. I cant really do the same for Google.
- nicce 2y agoI haven't used Google for year, and I find better results than ever.
- EasyMark 2y agoFor me ddg and brave search have been fine with an occasional dose of chatgpt . I don’t miss google. I used Kagi for a few months and it was great but I got tired of them aggressively logging me out because I use a VPN that often changes IPs all over the US to find the speediest server. I understand why they do it, but I could not tolerate it forcing me to log back in every couple of days across devices. I was using 2FA so it was obviously me and not someone else using my account.
- move-on-by 2y agoI use private mode on safari as my primary browser experience- so I’m never logged into anything. Kagi has a ‘Session Link’ feature where the URL itself logs you in. It’s pretty easy to get setup and then you never have to log in again unless you want to make account changes. I agree with you that it wouldn’t be worth it if I was constantly having to log in. Anyways, just something to consider, there is a solution.
- adastra22 2y agoThere are other search engines… I haven’t used google in years.
- babelfish 2y agoWhy not? For Google Search specifically, there is no lock-in (obviously yhe productivity suite has more)
- paxys 2y agoThere's no lock in but there's also no alternative. Bing is vastly inferior. ChatGPT meanwhile can be directly challenged by Claude, Gemini and several others.
- nicce 2y agoI guess you mean free alternative. Kagi at least provides very competitive results.
- staticman2 2y agoKagi uses Google as one of it's search provider, so is hardly competing with Google.
- hall0ween 2y agoIn terms of quality search results, kagi is ahead of google. Unless I misunderstand the situation, inferior search result are a natural product of google getting paid by advertisers rather than kagi getting paid by their users. Google won’t be able to get away from using their index to serve up adverts (rather than quality results).
- staticman2 2y agoMy point is Google gets money when you use Kagi, so they aren't really directly competing with Google.
- gammarator 2y agoCompare Google’s cost per query to ChatGPT’s.