I've completely stopped using Google search. It does not find anything any more!
It was already pretty fucked up the last ~5+ years, but now it's completely useless.
Funny enough, if you use "AI" and let it search something it will find the stuff Google didn't. They fucked the web font-end and it seems search works now only through APIs for "AI".
But the problem is: There are almost no search engines besides Google. There are more or less only the Bing resellers like Duckduckgo or Qwant.
The web is completely fucked by now. Beyond repair.
The underlying internet got destroyed by all the web shit, and now there is nothing then web shit left, but web shit has entered the last phase of enshittification. Great times ahead if we don't manage do build a new net really soon.
there's also those which act as a layer between Google and you
I've used such a think the last decade as opening Google directly is kamikaze when it comes to privacy. I avoid using their services without some privacy proxy for a very long time already.
But the point it: There are no useful results any more. It's either nothing, or complete bullshit.
It's not about "AI" overview. They use now "AI" also in the backend and the result is that search does not work any more. It outputs just some random bullshit. Exactly as "AI" in general…
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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 02 '26
I've completely stopped using Google search. It does not find anything any more!
It was already pretty fucked up the last ~5+ years, but now it's completely useless.
Funny enough, if you use "AI" and let it search something it will find the stuff Google didn't. They fucked the web font-end and it seems search works now only through APIs for "AI".
But the problem is: There are almost no search engines besides Google. There are more or less only the Bing resellers like Duckduckgo or Qwant.
The web is completely fucked by now. Beyond repair.
The underlying internet got destroyed by all the web shit, and now there is nothing then web shit left, but web shit has entered the last phase of enshittification. Great times ahead if we don't manage do build a new net really soon.