Cory Doctorow#Google's #AIHype Circle: We have to do #Bard because everyone else is doing #AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard.
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
Google's plummeting search quality made the company desperate to please its "activist investors"
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
#SecurityThroughObscurity #SearchQuality #Enshittification #Google
Google can improve search, or it can chase stock gains through #AIHype. It chose the latter
https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299
Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Inco@pluralistic wait, google has a search engine?
myrmepropagandistFor real, I've changed all my defaults for the first time in decades. I can't say the alternatives are better-- but, they aren't exactly worse.
Google's search is a disaster.
jordan@futurebird Unfortunately, to my knowledge there are only 2 US search engines that do their own indexing now: Bing and Google. Every other "competitor" just buys their results from Bing and Google.
Just like there are only two real browsers now: Chrome(ium) and Firefox. Everything else is just a Chromium variant. Unless you want to run Konqueror or something, but I imagine the browsing experience will be greatly degraded.
1st Unoriginal Thot 
@wagesj45 @futurebird kagi.com is the new kid on the block. Kagi is a privacy-focused, user-centric search engine that does their own indexing iirc.