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It's even worse than that, first Google will bug you to use Chrome, then bug you to login, then after your search the browser will pop up "Google would like to

by cle 2y ago

It's even worse than that, first Google will bug you to use Chrome, then bug you to login, then after your search the browser will pop up "Google would like to use your current location". And then the first half-page of results are ads. And half of the actual results are AI slop and a helpful AI summary of the slop. And that's before you even get to the page.

schmidtleonard 2y ago
> the first half-page of results are ads. I forget if it was crypto or AI, but not too long ago I put in what I would consider a "normie" query and every single above-the-fold result was an ad. Every single one.
dylanowen 2y ago
Time to switch to kagi.com
- enews01 2y ago
  Can everyone justify paying for a search engine though?
  - int_19h 2y ago
    It's up to everyone to decide how much their privacy is worth. It just needs to be enough people for services like Kagi to be sustainable.
whichdan 2y ago
Oh, don't forget, if you click "Allow (current location)" it will also reload the page.
FridgeSeal 2y ago
Don’t forget finally landing on the page and having the focus immediately stolen by some “LOG IN WITH GOOGLE” pop up that you didn’t ask for, and don’t want.
andai 2y ago
Ran into this gem today: https://files.catbox.moe/bvrd6u.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/bvrd6u.jpg > Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. > Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit.
- safety1st 2y ago
  Ah, the joys of crafting an illegal monopoly, systematically abusing the society that built you up, routinely breaking laws and defying judges. Enables you to become exactly what you got successful for NOT being. Must be great. /s
  - zelphirkalt 2y ago
    Now only the people in majority need to realize this, and perhaps we can have a somewhat saner web again.
  - nameless_me 2y ago
    Kinda where AI is today.
- smittywerben 2y ago
  LOL, I didn't know they ran newspaper ads for Google. I love old images of the Google search engine. When I was a kid, I taught other kids how to use the "cache" button next to links. Then Google buried the cache button three clicks under before completely removing it, and Googlers said, "Well, nobody was using it." MBA's doing user-driven development, "As a user (child), I don't know what a cache is." and the legal department being like, "Yup less shit to DMCA." Google is the modern-day Yellow Pages; kill some trees and slam that rainwater-soaked stack of ads on my porch. I won't say no to free, but how many hoops did we go through to end up back here?
  - hatsuseno 2y ago
    That's not an ad, that was a highlighted blurb in a tech magazine from way back when.
forgotmypw17 2y ago
I switched my iPhone to Bing recently because of this. It’s in the same order of magnitude of usefulness.
- snapplebobapple 2y ago
  I was on bing for a while but switched to brave search necause it surprisingly had much better results and was even less annoying than bing.

by cle 2y ago

schmidtleonard 2y ago

> the first half-page of results are ads. I forget if it was crypto or AI, but not too long ago I put in what I would consider a "normie" query and every single above-the-fold result was an ad. Every single one.

dylanowen 2y ago

Time to switch to kagi.com

enews01 2y ago
Can everyone justify paying for a search engine though?
- int_19h 2y ago
  It's up to everyone to decide how much their privacy is worth. It just needs to be enough people for services like Kagi to be sustainable.

whichdan 2y ago

Oh, don't forget, if you click "Allow (current location)" it will also reload the page.

FridgeSeal 2y ago

Don’t forget finally landing on the page and having the focus immediately stolen by some “LOG IN WITH GOOGLE” pop up that you didn’t ask for, and don’t want.

andai 2y ago

Ran into this gem today: https://files.catbox.moe/bvrd6u.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/bvrd6u.jpg > Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. > Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit.

safety1st 2y ago
Ah, the joys of crafting an illegal monopoly, systematically abusing the society that built you up, routinely breaking laws and defying judges. Enables you to become exactly what you got successful for NOT being. Must be great. /s
- zelphirkalt 2y ago
  Now only the people in majority need to realize this, and perhaps we can have a somewhat saner web again.
- nameless_me 2y ago
  Kinda where AI is today.
smittywerben 2y ago
LOL, I didn't know they ran newspaper ads for Google. I love old images of the Google search engine. When I was a kid, I taught other kids how to use the "cache" button next to links. Then Google buried the cache button three clicks under before completely removing it, and Googlers said, "Well, nobody was using it." MBA's doing user-driven development, "As a user (child), I don't know what a cache is." and the legal department being like, "Yup less shit to DMCA." Google is the modern-day Yellow Pages; kill some trees and slam that rainwater-soaked stack of ads on my porch. I won't say no to free, but how many hoops did we go through to end up back here?
- hatsuseno 2y ago
  That's not an ad, that was a highlighted blurb in a tech magazine from way back when.

forgotmypw17 2y ago

I switched my iPhone to Bing recently because of this. It’s in the same order of magnitude of usefulness.

snapplebobapple 2y ago
I was on bing for a while but switched to brave search necause it surprisingly had much better results and was even less annoying than bing.