2026-09-23 23:33 UTC
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@ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-24 03:55
I miss the actual old Google, where the searches wouldn’t intentionally show you a lot of things you don’t want in order to keep you searching longer for their ad revenue. The one where if you put something between “quotes” it would only show you results with those specific words, and you coul -minus a word to specifically exclude results that contained that word. Google has been a piece of shit for like 15+ years now. They’re even making android suck.
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@tal@lemmy.today 2026-09-23 23:53
Users who were quoted in the article: Sionn Achog, retired teacher 76, Dublin Peter Warb, 75, UK Jose Garcia Jr, 40, recovery coach, Dallas, Texas Alan Caruana, consultant, 62, Malta Eleazar Eke, electrical engineer, 67, Onitsha, Nigeria Catherine Weber, former political analyst, 57, Oregon Mark Johnson, 52, software engineer, London Samuel Lieberstein, 90, retired teacher, Cherry Hill, New Jersey Sean Peters, document processor, 41, Portland, Oregon According to Wikipedia, the CIA’s median age statistics for 2024 for each of the countries that had a respondent: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_median_ag… Ireland: 40.2 United Kingdom: 40.8 United States: 38.9 Malta: 43.5 Nigeria: 19.3 The respondents seem awfully non-representative of the larger population, considerably older. There isn’t a single person who was below the median age for their country, and many who were far above.
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@dhork@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 01:03
Many times that AI summary is just something that is in the first two or three links anyway
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@riskable@programming.dev 2026-09-24 01:44
Oh yes, I remember. I remember that Google started to become worse and worse starting around 2018. By 2020, SEO was too damned good and ruined so much of the results. By 2024, trying to find technical info became so difficult I’d end up searching with DDG which was sometimes better. All this was before AI slop existed. Don’t blame AI. Blame SEO by commercial interests. They’ve been generating slop since the early 2000s. AI just makes them faster at it.
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@Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2026-09-24 00:00
noai.duckduckgo.com, for at least one alternative. CoMaps or Openstreetmaps instead of Google Maps. ProtonMail/ProtonDrive instead of gmail, gdrive. There are lots of alternatives, we just need to use them and tell others to use them as well.
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@Jiral@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 05:33
I don’t miss old Google, I stopped using Google instead, only using Google scholar still, which has been left in peace so far by the slopification.
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@Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-24 05:46
It’s a little annoying to set up but all of my browsers have noai.duckduckgo.com as the default search engine. I haven’t seen an AI search result in ages and feels a little like the old Internet.
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@roserose56@lemmy.zip 2026-09-24 05:47
Have you heard of bing.com duckduckgo, ecosia etc search engines?
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@RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 03:18
My AOL keywords don’t work anymore!
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@MrPnut@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 23:27
Old google? I miss av.com (AltaVista)
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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 22:31
Same list of links? Since when? It used to give you what it thought was the most relevant based on the terms placed in the search field. It was excellent. Now it gives you: AI, youtube, sponsored links, ad links, shopping links, SEO garbage, social media links, and out of all of these there’s a good chunk that have only tangential relevance to your search at best, and then MAYBE you might get a link to a site that presents the information you seek. Sometimes google search returns nothing at all. Same list of garbage.
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@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-09-24 12:03
Nerds missed old google five to ten years ago. It was crap way before the AI garbage, but agreed that they’re shoving bs on us.
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@kamen@lemmy.world 2026-09-25 05:41
I missed the old Google maybe 15 years ago when I switched away from it as a default search. It’s not the AI.