Walden Wilde Jan 7, 2025
Ugh, I hate how sloppy the whole internet has become. I searched for a “berries good for diabetics?” page. The first three “comments” below the article were:
1) An “herbologist” who CURED DIABETES
2) A shill for a bitcoin wallet
3) An ad for a “free gift cards” scam
😞
Show threadBreveJan 7, 2025
@cooner It's almost stunning how enshittified Google can get and still have such a chokehold in the market. Their engineers were complaining a long time ago about the pressure to make search intentionally worse so people had to spend more time on the site wading through more ads and promoted links. This is by design, because people will still use it no matter how bad it gets.
Show threadWalden Wilde Jan 7, 2025
@breve Yup, and unfortunately it infests the entire internet. I’ve had my default search set to DuckDuckGo for years now but the results inevitably are affected by all the slop.
Show threadBreve
@cooner I switched to using Kagi myself. The flood of slop pouring into the Internet is hard to fight but they do a decent job filtering out a good amount and I love being able to set hard filters on sites like X and Facebook. Still have to be wary with any search engine though!
Jan 7, 2025 at 4:30pmWeb
Show threadWalden Wilde Jan 7, 2025
@breve Oh yeah I’ve been thinking about looking into Kagi at some point too!