Nobody wants any of this, literally every human alive just wants google to work like it did in 2010

I can't wait for google to quietly kill this in a year, by which point hopefully their market share will have collapsed.

So, how is Yandex looking as a daily use search engine? I mostly only use it for but it always seemed consistent to me in terms of leaving out dumb bullshit like what Google includes.

Won't this undermine googles own ad business?

I edited it to change the order of the sentences.

The new search box is arriving this week, and generative UI is arriving this summer. Both are free. The mini-app-building feature and information agents will roll out first to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer.

Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews. This has put some ad-dependent media operations out of business, and now things will likely get worse. There’s little time left for publishers to adapt.

I only scanned article but the new search looks like a nightmare. I don't want a "custom experience". And I do not want google saying "Good morning, InevitableSwing".

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I never thought I'd pay for search but if this is even 1/5th as bad as I'm expecting - once all the shit arrives - I might pay for Kagi. I just want fucking links. I do not want to be managed or manipulated or force-fed AI.

I'm privileged by being able to afford Kagi, it's really night and day. Even just the fact that nobody can buy out a hostile ad to phish me/infect me with malware

Thanks to this thread, I learned that metacrawler still exists

I wonder how sneaky or subtle other searches' presentation will be as they bend the knee to the machine emperor

Brave dogpile mojeek lilo DDG Ecosia yandex bing kagi

So they're offering a "premium" paid service, I wonder if they'll just make a version of that that is just the old google search without any AI bullshit.

I just hope this doesn't effect my SearX fork too much, it's already struggling to work maybe 75% of the time, though 25% is better than 0% that I'd be getting from google if they actually start implementing this stuff.

So how are the people who make websites supposed to make money in this environment? No one will click on their links.

I love making complete sentences and more to describe something I should be able to search for using 2 keywords

Techcrunch's Bluesky post

startpage.com

I've seen a number of people recommend ecosia.org as a search engine. Seems promising, although tbh I was immediately turned off by the "ai chat" that they have integrated into their search bar. But, no automatic AI summary at least.