Well AI is destroying search, one of the main points of AI is to design an architecture where ads and Not Bullshit can come together in an organic, inseparable union that regulators can’t figure out how to reasonably demand be artificially severed.
The cardinal sin for Google with search engines is it is too obvious when something is a manipulated advertisement vs. actual search result and A.I. perfectly “solves” that problem.
Google needs to be broken up.
Number of search queries is such a bad metric for quality of your product. If your search is trash then the user is going to need more queries to get a satisfactory answer. That is, until they stop using your service of course.
Switched to ecosia for private use and qwant for professional use. Much better than google and they’re creating their own search index now
Sadly qwant isn’t available in my country :(
There’s a few thing ecosia still gets wrong or offers the wrong answer. But 80% of the time it is correct.
Using it on all my devices.
Google search was good 20 years ago. It sucks now.
They over capitalized it.
Plus they’re evil af
I don’t disagree with your conclusion, but I think part of why it sucks now is all the Search Engine Optimization, of people trying to game Google into showing you their website, and only necessarily the one most pertinent to your search
sus of them to drop the slogan “don’t be evil”
The thing is though, despite Google not being my primary search, shout-out SearXNG, it doesn’t suck now for me.
If I’m looking for information, Google is great and the AI summaries provide everything I want.
If I’m looking for a song or artist discography, Google again is great.
It’s only when I’m looking for sites that I tend to not even bother with Google.
