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Google is its own worst enemy
- jonnyasmar 5mo agoThe reality is that there are people that want AI in everything they use and there are people that don't. Google, like almost every other big tech company, is betting that there are more of the former. And now we have an arms race with benefits nobody knew they needed and consequences nobody asked for.
- simianwords 5mo agoPeople project their own ideological views on normal people that just want functional useful products. They don't necessarily think AI overviews is a bad thing (I think it is suboptimal) or AI mode is horrible. AI is obviously the best thing to happen to search so obviously Google will try to integrate somehow
- yfw 5mo agoUmm old search without ads or ai is obviously the best. Thats why people pay for kagi
- simianwords 5mo agoWhy do you think so? What part of it made it better?
- simon_void 5mo agoless is more, I just want the plain old search experience I've had for 25 years so I stated paying for Kagi around a year ago. (Before that I used DuckDuckGo which still seems fine. They seem to also offer AI now, but it's not obnoxious like on Google.)
- simianwords 5mo agoI pay for ChatGPT and use it as a search engine. It gives exactly what I want and nothing more. Just links. And it has much higher accuracy than traditional search. It doesn’t even show ads. This is what a good search engine is!
- yfw 5mo agoIt shows ads now. And gemini is looking to offer paid options to advertisers on where they want to show