Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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@404mediaco I know 404 Media doesn't have a personal tech how-to section but you can almost get vintage Google back

https://blog.zgp.org/fix-google-search/

(fan theory: there are employees whose productivity depends on keeping this going, so they can't totally enshittify for everyone)

fix Google Search

@dmarti @404mediaco Counterpoint: don’t use a platform that has so little respect for you. As long as people keep using them, even with workarounds, they have zero incentive to change their ways.

Use options like @kagihq @duckduckgo @StartpageSearch and @ecosia instead. You don’t vote with your wallet with free services; you vote with your time and attention.