canI remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling
The D Quuuuuill1 is the right number of info cards
This is the impetus I needed
TheTechnician27Your daily reminder that DDG also has an infinite scroll option under its settings. (Seriously, DDG’s Settings menu is so good.}
We had no idea how good we had it back then, did we?
Ans we assumed it would stay good forever.
A poll in the search results, what the heck?!
They’re throwing shit at the wall I guess. Last week I got this in my YouTube feed:
JilanicoAre they trying to train an AI?
I doubt it. They know I’m into audio production and this is kind of a softball question. Maybe if they start giving me more advanced ones.
The Gemini logo next to the word “Experiment” makes me suspicious.
The quiz itself was definitely made by an AI.
I think it’s just something creators can do to boost gain extra impressions but apparently they don’t have to do it themselves anymore…
Eager Eagleno, too stupid of a question
Simple questions with known answers might be a way to weed out malicious/untrustworthy responders.
Yes, control questions, in a form, with 20 other open-ended questions which answers actually have value.
This is solely for engagement. Trivia questions have no value for training models.
Is it low pitch?
No, it’s lower volume (think amplification). Lower pitch would be from low frequency.
It was too good and offered no financial incentive for them to continue with it. It’s better if users scroll endlessly looking for the information that used to simply be available instantly.
Damn the second image in your post didn’t load for me and it turned my Connect into an infinite grey screen
I messed up the link twice in weird ways. It should be fixed now.
Y’all got a denial of service 0-day for Lemmy connect 👀
An obscure one.
LazaroFilmI switched to DuckDuckGo on all my devices and I get shocked that people can’t find anything when they search.
Momentum’s a bitch. I’ve been using google search since I lost touch with Jeeves and that pile of dogs ran away.
dogpile.com
Dunno what is wrong with you guys, but IMDB is on the first page for me, with no scrolling. But I don’t use my phone like a plebeian.
maybe not but you act like one… pleb
BigFigThe polls are completely idiotic but I personally find info cards to be quite helpful.
The info cards are a cancer on the internet. They exist only so you stay on Google’s page and don’t follow a link to another site.
They exist only so you stay on Google’s page and don’t follow a link to another site.
That may be true, but I’d say in the neighborhood of 1/3 - 1/2 of my searches are answered by auto-compiled info cards or similar artifacts.
Just by way of example, my wife and I were casually researching cars lately, and one of the criteria is “does the damn thing fit in our garage??” Typing “Mazda CX-9 length” and having that specific info presented immediately is immensely preferable to clicking into edmonds.com and scrolling through an entire table of specifications.
Until the provided data is wrong
If anyone still wants to use google without this, you can use this url, replacing ‘example’ with your search
https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=example
You can add it as a search engine on your browser for fewer steps. There are add-ons that can help you with that.
I know this won’t be the answer people want, but to be perfectly frank if I know I want the IMDb page for a movie, I put IMDb in the query. It will put the page you want right at the top, none of that extra shit, and it will even probably predict what you’re typing before you finish.
separately, imdb itself has been enshittified enough that, most times, i don’t want the imdb page as a search result.
morrowindAnyone know good alternatives?
CubitOomimdb wasn’t really the point, that’s on me, I could have also just tapped imdb on the card at the very top. It’s the other sites that I don’t know to search for that I would like to see promoted
Damn. I switched to DDG like well over a year ago and thought I was just kind of putting up with it for the sake of privacy. Turns out I didn’t know how good I have it
Exactly. I’ve been using DDG for years now and when I have to use Google search for whatever reason, I am quickly reminded how crap ggl is.
Carighan MaconarI just wish DDG would finally kill their Apple Maps. Over here they’re so incredibly unusable it’s just not funny any more. I’ll take here maps before that POS.
It’s so bad that on desktop, you can’t even go and click on alternative elements on the map without explicitly changing your search terms to them. You see them, but they’re non-interactive. So the incredibly common case “I remember the name of the restaurant next to this place” (or something similar) cannot be done on DDG, on account of getting Apple money to include their maps.
Using a specialized tool for the task is the way to go, in my opinion. I use OpenStreetMaps when I need to look at the map. If I’m looking for some famous place, I look it up on Wikipedia and jump to OSM from there.
Completely agree! I wish you could choose which map to use. I still use and love google maps.
hungprocessIt shouldn’t take this long to get to imdb
In case anyone here isn’t aware, you can directly search IMDB from DuckDuckGo by using the bang !imdb.
I can also search IMDB from IMDB.
modifierI had the identical reaction. Thanks OP for posting this repellent screenshot. So glad I changed my defaults.
cheddarDDG is moving into the same direction. I had to use ublock to hide the news block that appears when I’m searching for a movie/show to avoid spoilers.
In fact this was one of the key features lauded about DDG in its early days, the “instant result”-boxes.
Google kinda only went hard on them afterwards, probably seeing a good idea over at DDG because for the vast majority of people, they’re looking for answers and results, not specifically objects of type link-to-search-result. They don’t need a list of links, so long as the information they were after is reliably in those generated cards.
See OP wanting an IMDB link, which is directly there as Google correctly assumed that’s a very very very common use case for googling the name of a movie.
IMDB I can accept, random news websites - no.
Kagi has all these options as well but everything can be disabled in the settings.
Just switched to my own SearXNG instance. Won’t go back. Even did a PR for better Google Answers integration.
th3dogcowIt sucks, yes. But, if you select the “web” tab instead of the “all” tab at the top of the page, you’ll get something more akin to what you’re looking for. There’s probably even a way to script it so that it defaults to that view.
The tab that you have to scroll past shopping to know it even exists.
Yep! So convenient /s
Did it spoil the movie in the suggested questions 💀
Probably, luckily I had no interest in watching it and looked it up for other reasons.
In fairness, IMDB is right there on the first info card.