• TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It also dismisses DuckDuckGo’s approach to privacy as one of its failures, claiming that the approach leads to “significant trade-offs to search quality,

    This is a bold claim to make considering Google’s search is almost entirely useless now. They’ve let AI-generated SEO trash completely destroy their search results and have turned a blind eye to it.

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      9 months ago

      Thanks chat for restoring my faith in you.

      Yes Google search is more useless now than when it was before spiders when it was simply a directory index.

      Pot (Google) & Kettle (DDG), they’re both shitty controlled opposition under the new Cable TV Death Grip. The Internet is enshitified, I guess we fucked up killing cable, the parasites simply followed along and made this shit too.

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        9 months ago

        I hope so, let’s get some semi-healthy competition going, maybe they’ll even have to provide a better user experience instead of just seeing who can milk their users the most optimally. Probably not but one can dream.

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      9 months ago

      Definitely not useless but it does make finding things 10, harder