Technology

Google search died long before the AI summary.

so they can charge even more for advertising that wont really generate sales than if you would have lowered the price from the start. btw google charges 15-30% of a product while producing nothing of that value.

businesses are truly dumb paying for ads hope they go bankrupt using ai ads.

The worst part about Google search is that everything that is for sale comes first. I have looked for free alternatives that I know exist for work, only to be fed all the for profit alternatives first. Its aggravating.

Google was done a long time before AI came about. I quit using it as a primary search engine probably 5 or more years ago.

Screw that I miss old school spiders/crawlers. If you knew how to search them correctly you could find "pass dumps" and all kinds of weird shit you can't find now days.

Now every search is ranked bullshit and ads. Dead internet is here and only going to get worse...

if you are struggling to find information on google just as here in Lemmy. there will be at least one person who have bookmarked the site you might have been seeking. just be nice to each other :)

Users who were quoted in the article:

• Sionn Achog, retired teacher 76, Dublin
• Peter Warb, 75, UK
• Jose Garcia Jr, 40, recovery coach, Dallas, Texas
• Alan Caruana, consultant, 62, Malta
• Eleazar Eke, electrical engineer, 67, Onitsha, Nigeria
• Catherine Weber, former political analyst, 57, Oregon
• Mark Johnson, 52, software engineer, London
• Samuel Lieberstein, 90, retired teacher, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
• Sean Peters, document processor, 41, Portland, Oregon

According to Wikipedia, the CIA's median age statistics for 2024 for each of the countries that had a respondent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age

• Ireland: 40.2
• United Kingdom: 40.8
• United States: 38.9
• Malta: 43.5
• Nigeria: 19.3

The respondents seem awfully non-representative of the larger population, considerably older. There isn't a single person who was below the median age for their country, and many who were far above.

You can also append -ai to exclude AI summaries. I built myself a little homepage with a bunch of widgets and a selection of search engines linked to one search field, with AI defaulting to off.

I've set this to be my Firefox "new tab" page, so when I open a new tab, it pops open, and I can search right away or check weather, external IP address, ECT.

Yalls are welcome to use it too if you find it useful:

https://mediaplate.au/

searxng fixes a lot of this. it aggregates and consolidates results from many search engines of your choice. no ai. no ad

I just wish I'd discovered sooner that there are search engines based in other countries that work wonderfully without all the junk, like Mojeek.

If you're looking for Google alternatives, I made a video on the topic earlier this year.

Kagi, all day every day.

Speaking of AI and google, weren’t they supposed to mark content on YouTube that was made by AI?

I subscribe to cooking channels and have started getting slop suggested. Example:

https://youtube.com/@aldobellinii

I don't miss old Google, I stopped using Google instead, except for Google Scholar, which has been left in peace so far by the slopification.