Google is killing us.

[H1ssss]

There is no way to stand up to the change of the way information is accessed (primarily the internet) when this is the only way, google will own us because they have all the information. They only feed the public the stuff they want them to see. Its almost enough to use bing, almost.

 

[cybercola]

imagine the timeline where yahoo won the search engine war. could be worse

 

[FalseReality]

imagine the timeline where yahoo won the search engine war. could be worse

What's wrong with Yahoo? Too young to know yahoo that well but I have my email with them because my dad liked them when I was younger

 

[Kolph]

Google came my house and started stabbing me help

 

[H1ssss]

I was burned alive by google

 

[E R I L A Z]

imagine the timeline where yahoo won the search engine war. could be worse

bro id be SO happy if yahoo won. we'd probably still have geocities, and all the old archived ones. what I wish most is that monopolies didn't exist, but that ain't likely to change

 

[赤い男]

Use DuckDuckGo, that's what i use usually.

 

[Jared]

I tend to use Firefox when using Linux systems should I switch to Firefox completely on my main computer?

 

[Mk_Ultra_Victim]

Use DuckDuckGo, that's what i use usually.

DuckDuckGo, is starting to fall too

 

[赤い男]

DuckDuckGo, is starting to fall too

In that case, i'm afraid to say, guys, is time to touch grass.

 

[Fyren]

What's wrong with Yahoo? Too young to know yahoo that well but I have my email with them because my dad liked them when I was younger

The main reason that Google became the go-to search engine is because it was the only search engine that wasn't biased about its search results.

If Google had not won the search engine war, all search engines would have been compartmentalized ages ago.

That may seem a little peculiar considering Google being Google today, but they still - to some extent - adhere to it today. (Coming from experience working in SEO) But there's unfortunately plenty of hard facts to show that this is no longer the case. I'd like to refer you to the post Illuminatipirate made a while ago about biased search results. It's not going to get better from here unfortunately.

bro id be SO happy if yahoo won. we'd probably still have geocities, and all the old archived ones. what I wish most is that monopolies didn't exist, but that ain't likely to change

Sorry to say so, but you must be very naive to believe Yahoo wouldn't be the same as Google today, if not worse.

 

[llillilll]

Use startpage.com, it is slower and has ads but it is the only non-censoring search engine i know . Especially don't use DDG, it is peak poser privacy company. It has some retarded HR, HORRIBLE censored search results(worse than fucking communist yandex), it overadvertises and the owner was formerly ceo of a data-selling advertisement company.

 

[WALFTEAM]

imagine the timeline where yahoo won the search engine war. could be worse

that timeline is easily accessible, it's called "japan"

 

[morus]

You guys didn't find this site by googling vaporwave, right? It's the same as any infrastructure way too big to replicate by mere mortals to a satisfactory effect, like city roads. Just cycle or walk when you can. Find new ways to surf. Do webrings or just ask people. No need to subject yourself to the cancer.

And for the few times when you do need the infrastructure, do the only moral thing and squat. https://searx.github.io/searx/
If you wanna support some alternatives like it's ever gonna fucking matter, ecosia and mojeek are decent.

Here's my search engine setup for qutebrowser:

Spoiler

c.url.searchengines = {
'DEFAULT': 'http://search.disroot.org/search?q={}',
'1337': 'https://1337x.to/search/{}/1/',
'4ch': 'https://boards.4channel.org/{}/catalog',
'book': 'https://annas-archive.org/search?q={}',
'cunt': 'https://littlesis.org/search?q={}',
'ff': 'http://frogfind.com/?q={}',
'gif': 'https://gifcities.org/?q={}',
'image': 'https://yandex.com/images/search?text={}',
'imgops': 'http://imgops.com/{unquoted}',
'map': 'https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query={}',
'mj': 'https://www.mojeek.com/search?q={}',
'nyaa': 'https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=0_0&q={}',
'oldavista': 'http://oldavista.com/search.php?l=english&q={}&s=0&search=Search',
'quote': 'https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search={}&ns0=1',
'rarbg': 'https://rarbgp2p.org/torrents.php?search={}',
'rym': 'https://rateyourmusic.com/search?searchterm={}',
'searx': 'http://search.disroot.org/search?q={}',
'translate': 'https://www.deepl.com/translator#?/en/{}',
'video': 'https://www.vidlii.com/results?q={}&f=All',
'wiby': 'https://wiby.me/?q={}',
'wiki': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=Search&search={}&ns0=1',
'yt': 'https://yewtu.be/search?q={}'
}

 

[Stone in the Weft]

There is no way to stand up to the change of the way information is accessed (primarily the internet) when this is the only way, google will own us because they have all the information. They only feed the public the stuff they want them to see. Its almost enough to use bing, almost.

Search engines and their consequences have been a disaster for humanity.

There's no gatekeeping, no specialized roles for sites or people now. It's all consolidated into one big Google gumbo

 

[selfKaiHarness]

I was first born on Google. Things were pretty simple. Until it changed for what is the worst case scenario. Google isn't what it used to be anymore, a soulless company bathing in SEO fluids and having ESG agents clapping at the company for it's terrible movements throughout the years.

First i moved to DuckDuckGo back in 2017. Things were fine until it got bad.

Then i moved to Startpage, things were okay. Until they betrayed the very thing they swore to protect our data.

And finally i moved to SearX, the one search engine that i'll rely on for the rest of my internet years. And things became fine yet again.

Don't trust google, they're data harvesters to extract SEO and ESG juice out of you until you are an empty husk. Same with DDG and Startpage, these used to be good until they are not with us anymore. Go for SearX. They're the only ones that are open-source and censor-free.

 

[dorgon]

i use mojeek. good for privacy but a little ehh for search results, but the most annoying thing is that they sometimes block me for "automated queries".

 

[morus]

Go for SearX. They're the only ones that are open-source and censor-free.

It's just all the other search engines combined, how is that censor-free? You still only get what they'd individually show. You just don't have to deal with data collection (to a degree anyway) and cancerous front-ends.

 

[punishedgnome]

I mean, how often does one really need to search for things on the Internet? Just have a bunch of bookmarks, type where you want to go in the address bar and your bookmark pops up.

I have my podcast and news feeds. A few MSM news sites I check on. I find new sites and shit through forums like this one, >reddit usually has decent subreddits for hobby specific stuff, a few hobby specific sites I keep tabs on plus the Internet Archive.

I'm pretty sure the only thing I use Google for nowadays is to look up restaurant menus, directions and phone numbers.

I tend to use Firefox when using Linux systems should I switch to Firefox completely on my main computer?

Yeah man. Pale Moon was really good for a while, but it imploded and now Firefox is the lesser evil of the web browsers that actually work. I'm pretty sure ad blockers won't even work on Chrome anymore pretty soonish.

 

[Some_porcupine]

what a timeline where alta.vista stays unchanged?
would world change, or can it stay in "limbo"?
do i want it to, if there is "no future" anyway, so at least i can cling to alt-future??