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    450 points airstrike | 15 comments | 14 Oct 24 19:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.684s | source | bottom
    1. cle ◴[14 Oct 24 19:43 UTC] No.41841122[source]▶
    It's even worse than that, first Google will bug you to use Chrome, then bug you to login, then after your search the browser will pop up "Google would like to use your current location". And then the first half-page of results are ads. And half of the actual results are AI slop and a helpful AI summary of the slop. And that's before you even get to the page.
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    2. schmidtleonard ◴[14 Oct 24 20:00 UTC] No.41841298[source]▶
    > the first half-page of results are ads.

    I forget if it was crypto or AI, but not too long ago I put in what I would consider a "normie" query and every single above-the-fold result was an ad. Every single one.

    3. dylanowen ◴[14 Oct 24 20:31 UTC] No.41841636[source]▶
    Time to switch to kagi.com
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    4. whichdan ◴[14 Oct 24 22:18 UTC] No.41842684[source]▶
    Oh, don't forget, if you click "Allow (current location)" it will also reload the page.
    5. FridgeSeal ◴[14 Oct 24 23:40 UTC] No.41843401[source]▶
    Don’t forget finally landing on the page and having the focus immediately stolen by some “LOG IN WITH GOOGLE” pop up that you didn’t ask for, and don’t want.
    6. andai ◴[14 Oct 24 23:47 UTC] No.41843455[source]▶
    Ran into this gem today:

    https://files.catbox.moe/bvrd6u.jpg

    > Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter.

    > Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit.

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    7. safety1st ◴[15 Oct 24 02:36 UTC] No.41844392[source]▶
    Ah, the joys of crafting an illegal monopoly, systematically abusing the society that built you up, routinely breaking laws and defying judges.

    Enables you to become exactly what you got successful for NOT being. Must be great.

    /s

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    8. enews01 ◴[15 Oct 24 03:25 UTC] No.41844608[source]▶
    Can everyone justify paying for a search engine though?
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    9. int_19h ◴[15 Oct 24 04:25 UTC] No.41844927{3}[source]▶
    It's up to everyone to decide how much their privacy is worth. It just needs to be enough people for services like Kagi to be sustainable.
    10. smittywerben ◴[15 Oct 24 05:56 UTC] No.41845362[source]▶
    LOL, I didn't know they ran newspaper ads for Google. I love old images of the Google search engine. When I was a kid, I taught other kids how to use the "cache" button next to links. Then Google buried the cache button three clicks under before completely removing it, and Googlers said, "Well, nobody was using it." MBA's doing user-driven development, "As a user (child), I don't know what a cache is." and the legal department being like, "Yup less shit to DMCA."

    Google is the modern-day Yellow Pages; kill some trees and slam that rainwater-soaked stack of ads on my porch. I won't say no to free, but how many hoops did we go through to end up back here?

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    11. zelphirkalt ◴[15 Oct 24 07:42 UTC] No.41845914{3}[source]▶
    Now only the people in majority need to realize this, and perhaps we can have a somewhat saner web again.
    12. nameless_me ◴[15 Oct 24 11:35 UTC] No.41847433{3}[source]▶
    Kinda where AI is today.
    13. forgotmypw17 ◴[15 Oct 24 12:21 UTC] No.41847800[source]▶
    I switched my iPhone to Bing recently because of this. It’s in the same order of magnitude of usefulness.
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    14. snapplebobapple ◴[15 Oct 24 15:08 UTC] No.41849423[source]▶
    I was on bing for a while but switched to brave search necause it surprisingly had much better results and was even less annoying than bing.
    15. hatsuseno ◴[15 Oct 24 19:13 UTC] No.41852060{3}[source]▶
    That's not an ad, that was a highlighted blurb in a tech magazine from way back when.