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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 20:36:25 JST nixCraft 🐧

   I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 20:47:54 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:

     @mwl that is a wonderful tip. thanks :)

   • Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire: (mwl@io.mwl.io)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 20:48:01 JST Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:

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     @nixCraft

     Skip the AI. Go over to More, click the Web drop-down. Almost like the old Google.

     Or use DDG, of course.

   • Arthur (averseabfun@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 21:31:34 JST Arthur

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     @nixCraft somehow im in Minnesota, not using a VPN, and not using an enterprise account, and yet I'm not getting the AI BS.

     Woo hoo!!

   • zetabeta (zetabeta@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 22:41:31 JST zetabeta

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     @nixCraft

     now when alphabet inc has good experience of monetizing and spoiling search, next one is android. will android become alphabet inc's new swamp.

   • Crafty (craftycat@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 03:27:07 JST Crafty

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     @nixCraft i feel like a good 75% of the issue is relatively unrelated to google though, it's more so the internet being saturated with SEO perfected LLM slop, because I mostly get useless results from DDG too, which is my primary? Or am I just too stupid to do online searches these days I dunno.

   • Andrew Douglass (ardouglass@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 05:18:34 JST Andrew Douglass

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     @nixCraft Google wasn’t ruined until 2019? That’s the real takeaway tbh.

   • Emir Morataon (noztox@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 15:18:01 JST Emir Morataon

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     @nixCraft and to many spam in CEO from blog or big company in e-commerce

   • Gwyn (gwynhannay@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 19:34:56 JST Gwyn

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     @nixCraft That is perfect, I love it. 😄

   • skua (skua@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 20:32:50 JST skua

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     @nixCraft
     Hmmm.
     Google search was seriously degenerating from prior to 2016.

     I used to reseach metadata on obscure LPs.
     Google search just got worse and worse and worse.