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The Mediocrity of Modern Google. (om.co)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality and her romanticized dreams of escape. That is Google in a nutshell, isn’t it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

People keep pushing Kagi because they love it. I know, I’m one of them. Anybody acting like there’s no way out of google’s clutches is following the “we’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas” mantra.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I've tried SearXNG and stayed there. And it costs me a whole 0€ per month. 10€/month for a search engine is insane.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's gonna stay free forever, you're totally not externalizing those costs to someone else. You can't break the laws of thermodynamics

You know what they say about when you don't pay for a service...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Do you know how SearXNG works? It literally pulls search results from whatever other SEs you define it should pull from. You just get to reap the perks of all engines, without having to deal with their antagonistic design.

Who pays for all of it in the end? The people who still want to use Google's service and feed their all-reaching tentacles. But that is their choice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Wikipedia page for SearX claims it has been discontinued in 2022. The GitHub repository being archived in 2023 would seem to support that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I meant to say SearXNG. Still being maintained.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I take it that means you feel it’s worth the cost? I have a hard time since search is something I’ve been so used to being free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Absolutely, I do. You have been paying Google: with your privacy, viewing tons of ads, and manipulation via rigged search results. Fixing that is worth the price to me. I admit it requires a shift in mindset, but I couldn’t go back now.