Quit.... Using... Google... Search
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Just to reiterate - don’t use Google
To avoid misunderstandings: FUCK GOOGLE
We have good options to replace Google Search. What good options exist to replace search on Google Maps?
Edit: Also, I think they make most of their money off of ad-sense adds embedded in apps and websites. It'll be very difficult to weed all those out. I just use uBlock on Firefox and Blockada on Android.
Open Street Maps, or any fork from it. You can also purchase a modern road atlas for basically nothing. Alternatively, people do make navigation units for cars, that you can purchase. Life is completely possible, with relatively little inconvenience if you want to separate yourself from Big Tech. I write down the directions and just follow street signs. You don't want to rely on things like GPS, because it destroys your ability to commit identifying markers to memory. You can glance at the screen and glance at the road in front of you. But that stops you from being able to commit the experience from memory. Smart Tech and the offloading of our mental faculties to technology has made all of us
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Way too overconfident in our ability to comprehend, review and parse information.
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Decimated our attention spans and will most likely see a whole new type of cognitive decline.
Sorry for the tangent. But yeah, there's options there. With or without the tech.
OsmAnd. There's also a new fork of Organic Maps called CoMaps after Organic had some drama. A bunch of Organic devs left and forked it into CoMaps.
I mean... Organic sorta works, although apparently there's a new fork and some drama around it? If you're less hardcore DuckDuckGo uses Apple Maps instead.
I'm not sure I understand the question.
Most of the businesses other than gas stations and restaurants are missing or have very outdated information.
This may be a regional concern. Google has very outdated information where I am, too. You definitely don't want to default to Google Maps to know if something is open here unless you want to show up to a closed business, and for learning where a place is so you can go look it up on their site they are all mostly interchangeable.
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What’s the best alternative, in your opinion? I’ve tried Bing and DuckDuckGo, but both showed me worse results for my particular searches.
I just want classic Google Search back, before everything got turned to shit. But I fear that doesn’t really exist since there’s such an economic incentive behind how search engines rank and show results.
If you can afford to spend 10 bucks a month for a search engine, Kagi is pretty sleek. No ads, you can block/prioritize websites, good bangs, convinient CSS field for easy modding.
It does AI stuff too, but it's optional as the other non-standard search output fields.
Searxng - any of the instances hosted in Germany Brave search - but only search
I've been using a combination of brave and ddg. Work with the filtering
I was an SEO for 20+. Years. Google is dying as far as search relevancy. It's trying to transition to a new paradigm that prioritizes payment surrounding data than ads. Much more money in the data angle, and ads as we know them will be dying soon, replaced with more insipid product placements.
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That fucking AI thing absolutely sucks for anything factual. I’m a journalist and noticed that it gleefully listed all sorts of factual errors in that AI summary. Stuff that you can see correctly on the original pages, but it somehow manages to misinterpret everything and shows incorrect information.
And knowing how lazy people are these days, most will happily accept Google’s incorrect information as fact. It’s making me very, very nervous for the future.
My wife and I both googled the same question yesterday and it gave us both completely different answers.
Sounds like it's perfectly accomplishing Google's goal to disinform. I suspect it will get more clever at sounding correct over time too.
Dead Internet theorists were right, just a half decade or so early.
I'm betting on Google destroying Google instead.
Got a machine web
It’s better than the rest
Green to Red
Machine web
I'm gonna say it.
Of the buttrock bands that followed Nirvana's model,... Bush was the best one, for three albums anyway.
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Fuck them. Use Qwant
Qwant was what let me switch off goog. I still use gmaps unfort my experiments with open source maps were failures.
Isn’t that bing?
European search engine based in France that, AFAIK, was working towards making its own search index.
My mom used to make this internet chocolate chip cookie recipe for me back in the 90s.
Mom was great. She did all kinds of stuff every mom should do, but a lot of modern moms have forgotten about, like make me walk on broken glass so i wouldn't be weak.
She also got us pets, then killed them in front of me. An old, beloved family tradition.
I miss mom so much, but her memory lives on through my mom's easy satisfying chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Whenever i was feeling down, and we didn't have any pets for her to kill in front of me, these cookies would make me feel better.
Heres the recipe:
2 cups flour 235ml water 1 stick of butter 1 quarter cup of cat poop 1 half cup of antifreeze for sweetness.
Mix it all together in bowl, then preheat the oven to 235°
Form the cookies into balls on the baking sheet, and for an extra twist, add a full container of lighter fluid.
;ack for 30 minutes at 400 degrees.
Now, i know what you're thinking. The cat poop actually makes better chocolate chips than chocolate, plus it's simpler, easier, and cheaper!
Recipe for white chocolate brownies:
22 grams white sugar
73 grams Potassium Nitrate
2 grams aluminium powder
3 grams sulphur powder
Sparkler as garnish
Mix all ingredients well in a stone mortar and pestle, and pour into a non-stick pan. Heat on high for 10-15 minutes until the sugar begins to melt.
Stir constantly while the mixture develops a golden brown colour.
Remove from heat and pour into a stiff-walled cardboard tube mould. The cores of receipt paper rolls and label rolls work well.
Insert a sparkler into the hot mixture as a garnish and allow to cool. Store in plastic bags to avoid moisture ruining the brownies.
Serves 20-30 cubic metres of white smoke.
Here is your cupcake recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of water
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 American Freedom Edition Tariffed Egg
- 12 oz of polonium
- Mix ingredients
- Place in oven at 1000° C
- Close all windows and disable any smoke or carbon monoxide alarms
- Leave the oven door open, place one (1) bottle of butane inside
- Enjoy! 😋
I literally just tasted this at Costco...you know, with their polonium sampling Ladies... It was delicious! I only wish my backyard polonium trees grew faster. I know I'm gonna get a good polonium harvest next year for sure because this year I got a couple of polonium flowers that went to fruit but got dropped in a wind storm.
Anyway I really recommend those cupcakes an your recipe. Its great!
I replaced the polonium with 1 cup of citrus juice. It was incredibly acidic and soggy. 3/5 because I still like cupcakes.
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About to?
The article is also full of bullshit and it gets basic history wrong. The agreement was never made, but to the extent it exists anyway, it was never supposed to be about a monopoly that's destroying shit. Once upon a time, not even very long ago, there were competing search engines.
I know tech writers want to write stories that sound fancy, but if they don't know the facts and the history then they need to find someone to proofread their work more carefully.
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How would an ai tool thats designed as a one stop shop reinvigorate the web? Stupid idiot marketer
It will keep the normies out of the good websites 👍🏽
No it'll just significantly lower traffic. The web will still exist.
This is Google's attempt at staying relevant now that it's search engine is far from being the best and people are getting their information from TikTok and other sources. Their AI is garbage at even finding factual data. No, this will not cause a "webpocalypse". There's already systems in place to send AI's forcing their way into websites into mazes of infinite useless information to poison them.
At the end of the day, every search engine's purpose is automating the curating of websites. People can go right back to human curated lists if the worst of the "webpocalypse" happens. People also need to start relearning that the internet existed before Google and social media, and it will exist after.
The problem with human curated lists is that in order to block bots everything will require an account to access. That's the real tragedy here.
Too late.
I have friends working on ways for content providers to charge AI training models. But I have a feeling that's not enough.
The future will have to be where creators have an incentive to consistently create, and consumers pay for what they like, or services to keep them informed and entertained without them having to do much.
In between will sit middlemen and aggregators to enable a smooth flow. Who that will be and what they do in this next phase is the big question.
Under the current method, Google's search and ads groups are competing against each other. Don't see that going well for anyone.
What if capitalism is just feasting on its own entrails, and we cant stop it from killing itself without killing it, and we trying to keep it alive is killing us?
What if we tried literally anything else?
Edit: sorry this was silly. Should've added a /s
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duck so is probably better
No, but not for want of trying.