oshyMay 11
You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
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@ocean figured

It was still somewhat usable a few years ago but it really stopped being usable around the AI boom, like, whenever it was that M$ bought OpenAI is around even I started noticing Google search results no longer being competent anymore

It's a wild choice, does Google think that folks won't stop using it ?

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@ocean Like their choice of the stuff they did with YouTube made me get rid of my Google acc since that is all I was using it for anyway, and pretty much just avoid YouTube now besides stuff that is sent to me which is usually a webm uploaded to archive.org fetched with youtube-dlp.

And their choice with making the search engine unusably bad is like, even making me consider paying for a search engine now.

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@ity @ocean, I'll use Youtube (anonymously) right up to the point at which it suddenly and annoyingly shoves an advertising interruption in halfway through somebody's speech in whatever I happen to be watching.

At that point, yt-dlp.