I’ve started getting those AI responses from Google now and I honestly skip right past them.

I fundamentally don’t trust the information so what’s the point of even reading it?

Maybe because the person that ran yahoo search into the ground is now responsible for Google search.

Sometimes I forget that google is a searching engine, I've been using DDG for years now! :)

Because - and this is a real thing, despite how baffling and utterly, obviously insane it is - the guy who now heads the Google search team is the very same guy who drove Yahoo search into the ground.

I just received a Kagi invite from a friend.

It's absolutely great

Let's hope they don't look too closely at how family plans are shared for now.
10€ + taxes a month is just too steep for me

Use Mojeek

For the same reason it became more popular than other search engines in 00s. Those would give honest search results, Google would have various kinds of complex foolery approaching ML to give people what they wanted quicker.

One can say their corporate culture shows signs of overfitting for that situation. And not just theirs. In general those attempts to make products more competitive with even more complex foolery outside of the main functionality - are that.

Except when products are simply less usable for said main functionality, people use them less even if they don't consciously realize that.

Also - what is Google in essence? It's saying that some computing thing is too smart for you to run it at home or self-host it. It can only be done by the very smart and important people in companies with trillions in capitalization. And because you can't, you are by some cultural taboo forbidden, to run it at home or self-host it, they get to manipulate results to make you give money to the people partnering with them.

We all know there's nothing fundamentally or practically impossible in making a search engine. If we don't have to cache pages, it's actually easy.

The issue is in the service requirements. What the Internet needs is a technically transparent p2p market of services. Where storage and computing power can be transparently donated (or sold) just like in some countries you can sell power to the electric grid.

OK, I've described the magic wand. That's the strategy. Tactics is for someone actually capable of conceiving the thing. LOL

Because Enshittification

I've been experiencing this, but only when I'm not logged in to my Google account. It seems that they're forcing people to log in so that the search results are less shitty.

I miss old mrwhosetheboss who was more technically knowledgeable. He was talking about android modifications like roms that he probably would never talk about today.

For the time being at least, there are options to still use the cleaner search results. For Firefox, this post walks through how to set it up: https://lemm.ee/post/42488635/14853159

Don't think there's any new info in the video.

Here's another discussion about this.