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Google's dominance of internet search is being challenged by how fucking useless the results have become in the last ten years.
As much as government regulation is important, you can almost always rely on a capitalist business to run themselves into the ground in pursuit of profit above all else.
how are they useless? I usually use ddg, but there are many times I need to go back to Google because their results are just better
gamed to fuck. Google doesn't show you relevant or useful rsults, it just shows you who has the better SEO team.
fair enough
It's very difficult to find anything that isn't manipulating the search engine.
Just don’t use Google.
unfortunately that works up until a point. past a certain point of engrained expectations and ubiquitous adoption by a majority of society, it no longer works.
google has gotten to that point.
google needs to be broken up, regardless, for the people not smart enough to adapt to using another search engine.
and guess what: if google gets broken up, a lot more people also won’t use google anymore, and then you get your wish!
It works for me.
I don’t search with google. If I can’t find something without google, I don’t find it.
Are there any serious alternatives to try, bing is better now but nearly as bad