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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:04:28 JST cool_boy_mew

   • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
   @1iceloops123 The Internet had a shit content problem way before AI and it's Google's fault for not throwing this garbage away
   • djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:07:27 JST djsumdog

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     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     It's the people's fault to for gravitation to only using Google and neglecting Yahoo, Excite, HotBot ... I mean Google did give a lot better results in the early 2000s, but the search space stopped innovating and there are very few new players. Even search engines like Kagi still give you pretty much the same style of results, with some limited options for lenses and such.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:08:04 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • djsumdog
     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     @djsumdog @1iceloops123 The problem is that Google was amazing for very long. Peak Google was probably 2013. It went downhill from there and the others weren't even close
   • Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:11:12 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • djsumdog
     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     For a very, very long time the usefulness of Google outweighed how evil it was. Search results quality went downhill startlingly quickly in the past five years.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:11:46 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • djsumdog
     • Hoss Delgado
     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     @Hoss @djsumdog @1iceloops123 yeah, the last 3 years of it has been horrid. But the problem is that no other big provider still manages to be as good, that's insane
   • djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:12:06 JST djsumdog

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     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     There are multiple YouBoobers (Truth Stream Media, and Bright Insight come to mind) who show you that you can only get about 6~8 pages of search results on Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo now. They still keep that "10 out of 50,000,000" in the top right corner, but you can't even get a fraction of those results (if they're even indexed at all).
     
     I wish Yacy was a better personal indexer, but it just tends to crash all the time or each through resources.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:12:30 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • djsumdog
     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     @djsumdog @1iceloops123 Pretty sure that's true, it's been my experience also
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:13:32 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • djsumdog
     • Hoss Delgado
     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     @Hoss @djsumdog @1iceloops123 I don't know, I tried Bing, I tried Yandex and they were all sort of unsatisfying in a lot of way for how I did searches
     
     Also Google is still the image search king somehow
   • Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 11:13:33 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • djsumdog
     • iceloops.eth 🚬 :love_forever_cat:
     Bing is pretty decent, and it doesn't treat me like a CAPTCHA slave for using a VPN.