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Simple answer --- stop using Google. Get your friends and family and other internet users to do the same. The only thing likely to get their attention is if e
by jqpabc123 2y ago
Simple answer --- stop using Google.
Get your friends and family and other internet users to do the same.
The only thing likely to get their attention is if enough people follow suit.
- 23B1 2y ago"Simple answer, just get everyone to stay home for three weeks and the virus will die out" "Simple answer, just stop electing corrupt politicans" "Simple answer, just stop war" k
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- senko 2y agoSubscribing to Kagi is definitely easier (and less costly!) than handling the pandemic, ensuring world peace and utopian government. Edit to add: and since we're talking about indie web: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/
- nemomarx 2y agoMe subscribing to it is. Getting everyone I know to subscribe to it is at least a step more complex than getting people to move to Firefox, and I haven't quite worked out a strategy for that yet.
- justinclift 2y agoSearch results being absolutely shit is probably more of a problem for people than their choice of browser. When someone complains to you directly about Google search results being shit, maybe point them to Kagi and mention it has a free trial account (100 searches still?) that's not time limited. That way they'll have a solution they can turn to the next time Google pisses them off significantly. :)
- xigoi 2y agoI don’t know about you, but I’ve never had someone complain to me about Google search results, other than people who already don’t use Google.
- justinclift 2y agoInteresting. I definitely have, though I do tend to hang out with IT-ish people a lot.
- aaomidi 2y agoI’ll be honest, I don’t want my searches necessarily always tied to my identity.
- dafty4 2y agoThe above marginalia.nu just surfaced the following very nice article for me, which neither Google nor Kagi returned in their top 10 search results for the same terms ('thaad aegis hwasong'): https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/the-role-of-missile-defense-in-north-east-asia/ https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/the-rol... (duckduckgo.com returned it as the 5th returned result (not bad)), Thanks!
- rcMgD2BwE72F 2y agoKagi is good enough. Haven’t used a Google product for 12+ months expect as required by my employer (or YouTube but with an ad blocker). Not saying calling for a boycott is enough but it’s easy to avoid Google nowadays.
- jqpabc123 2y ago"... it’s easy to avoid Google nowadays." If it says "Google", you really don't want it. Some may be a little slow to come around to this realization but it's growing. For example, more than half of internet users are now taking active steps to block "personalized advertising" which is Google's bread and butter.
- j_bum 2y ago+1 Ok another note, your karma is very close to 2381. Make sure you get a screenshot :)
- Ferret7446 2y agoAre you really comparing typing a dozen characters into a browser's URL bar and hitting Enter with "stop war"? Using a different search engine, is just about the easiest kind of switch you could do. It's easier than, say, eating a different type of snack than you usually eat, or switching out your usual mug/plate/utensil.
- passwordoops 2y agoAn even better solution is to apply the rule of law and break them up. They never should have been allowed to get this big in the first place https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-rage-of-google https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-rage-of-google
- nunez 2y agoHow would breaking up Google fix this?
- kayodelycaon 2y agoThis is what I call a “load-bearing just”. Just do the thing and the problem is gone. Very similar to “Draw the rest of the owl.” The problem is people don’t “just”. We’re complicated critters with our own needs, capabilities, and goals. At an individual level, a person may not be capable of the “just” due to factors outside of their control. With a society, the resistance to change grows exponentially. You can’t scale one person at a time. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Sometimes you can make a big difference to the people around you. But you’re gonna have a difficult time changing in the world.
- chiefalchemist 2y ago> With a society, the resistance to change grows exponentially Yes and no. There's certainly the potential for a more flexible and adapt-minded culture for the same reason there's not... Human behavior. Yes, once norms are established they're slow to change but that's how the culture is nudged and "managed". It's not necessarily how humans arw hardwired. Eons ago, slow to adapt would mean certain death. Currently, fast to adapt labels you a rebel, a freak, an odd-ball, etc.
- kayodelycaon 2y ago> norms are established they're slow to change That is all I meant when I said society.
- chiefalchemist 2y agoAnd I'm saying that the current system is "optimized" by the powers that be to not change too fast. Humans have and can adept if they're allowed to do so. The current sociopolitical system doesn't allow this. The bottleneck to change isn't humans, it's the system.
- abecedarius 2y agoIn this case it really is easy to try a different search engine and switch to it to the extent you prefer it. At least if you're not too uncomfortable using software.