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(DIR) Post #AtzgvJjZVlHi9bdpeC by ocean@raru.re
2025-05-11T19:00:46Z
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?Turns out that was on purpose
(DIR) Post #AtzmgHWi2HRWglq4I4 by charliebrownau@poa.st
2025-05-11T20:31:10.251086Z
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@ocean Its JewishIts Mainstream Its GatekeepingIts Kosher
(DIR) Post #AtzqLQ4dShrIvu10F6 by Stellar@mk.absturztau.be
2025-05-11T19:39:04.765Z
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@ocean@raru.re i'm not surprised, but i didn't noticed since i use alternatives from google since a long time :ablobcatwink:
(DIR) Post #AtzqLRHQybgsft0jpY by Haleakalacrater@noauthority.social
2025-05-11T21:12:13Z
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@Stellar @ocean I need an alternative. 😔
(DIR) Post #AtzqVSL7tMdCrAVxIm by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-05-11T21:13:25Z
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@ocean@raru.reI wonder if they utilised the same strategy for Google Translate? Because it's equally unusable now — I recall early machine-assisted translation systems from the nineties doing much better job that what Google Translate does now. At times it's hard to figure out what is the meaning of the resulting text even if you speak both languages and know what the usual pitfalls are.
(DIR) Post #AtzqciJEuqVKPd5npw by charliebrownau@poa.st
2025-05-11T21:15:20.670149Z
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@ocean Solution SearXhttps://etsi.me/https://searx.be/
(DIR) Post #Atzqqyf6uhFxBS7kem by yafa@poa.st
2025-05-11T21:17:55.020439Z
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@ocean A pajeet did it on purpose. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
(DIR) Post #Atzr8rUqIGzWAkqi7U by wasabi@raru.re
2025-05-11T19:03:51Z
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@ocean WHO COULD'VE GUESSED (literally everyone)
(DIR) Post #AtzrHScO9yj7cVTlNg by EverydayMoggie@sfba.social
2025-05-11T20:20:58Z
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Not even slightly surprising. It's been years since I used Google search so I haven't witnessed this firsthand.@ocean
(DIR) Post #AtzrKELffdYOESyqCe by Mikal@sfba.social
2025-05-11T20:28:44Z
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@ocean Ha! Knew it!Not long ago I pointed out to someone that in a way, worse search results meant more time scrolling and ergo more ad impressions, so it wouldn't at all surprise me if they quit bothering to improve.Fuckers. I'd assumed a sort of passive acceptance and laziness had led to degraded quality, but the fact that it was actually designed that way means there should be a "recall" of their product and they need to compensate me for all the wasted time before I finally gave up and went to DDG (which, IMO, has dropped significantly in quality since I started using it 🤔 ).Thing is, look at ANY online business that makes money off of ad impressions and there is an immediately obvious incentive to find ways to increase your scrolling time on the site. Not all are scummy grifters, of course, but when the incentive is there, someone is going to take advantage of it.
(DIR) Post #AtzrTSmNO2mtavsFF2 by gcvsa@mstdn.plus
2025-05-11T20:57:42Z
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@ocean that's...actually diabolical.
(DIR) Post #AtzsfaijmqjveZWEee by space_cadet@aus.social
2025-05-11T21:19:13Z
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@ocean Money is always the reason for the treason.
(DIR) Post #AtzsjomhRJaKQjO6Cm by ThatWouldBeTelling@shitposter.world
2025-05-11T21:39:04.604903Z
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@ocean Here's the source of that image's text (found with Bing and double quotes).https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/@seq @christianschwaegerl @alpha1beta @kuba
(DIR) Post #Atzyt7Qo508oarxvm4 by WandererUber@poa.st
2025-05-11T22:47:56.730638Z
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@m0xEE @ocean >I recall early machine-assisted translation systems from the nineties doing much better job that what Google Translate does now. There is no way in a million years this is true. It was already better than those since it's inception, and Google Translate has improved leaps and bounds over the last 15 years. And there is competition in that space, so it doesn't fit the motive as well
(DIR) Post #Au039D2rNK88SEh0jI by WandererUber@poa.st
2025-05-11T23:35:40.003611Z
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@yafa @ocean This is a really good article and a bit funny unintentionally.Ed Zitron can't see the nepo racial hiring in place, and it shows.
(DIR) Post #Au07yLFB3HgwT35il6 by AkIN5RMKVSkgqIBLWa.jeff@mk.magicka.org
2025-05-12T00:29:46.096Z
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@ocean@raru.re not shocking, google's evil.
(DIR) Post #Au08NfCI0EFRajoaEC by aarbrk@mstdn.mx
2025-05-11T23:52:53Z
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@itamarst @ocean Great catch with this source! If only we had spent the interim setting up an alternative in the public interest. (Actually, is it too late?)
(DIR) Post #Au08OnE9dHKgmnE3qy by ocean@raru.re
2025-05-11T19:03:56Z
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@aetios Because Google is so synonymous with web search for Normies and they don't have any actual competition they can just do whatever and they won't lose users, knowing that, it just makes sense to keep users on your site longer and thus get served more ads
(DIR) Post #Au09HzmWeo7ReLcpWK by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
2025-05-12T00:44:30.268659Z
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@ocean the wildest thing is that every other browser engine is somehow worse than google
(DIR) Post #Au09TfYNgszcO8ZkzQ by pettanko@varishangout.net
2025-05-12T00:46:36.657333Z
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@mischievoustomato @ocean what even is there besides Firefox
(DIR) Post #Au09WjYHHVnxepzMCu by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
2025-05-12T00:47:10.063090Z
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@pettanko @ocean i'm retarded. I was supposed to say "search engine"
(DIR) Post #Au0APlLUJWvP9EFJya by pettanko@varishangout.net
2025-05-12T00:57:03.898378Z
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@mischievoustomato @ocean oh okay that brings the total up to like 5.
(DIR) Post #Au0KJ8c2PPKUp7T11M by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2025-05-12T02:46:52Z
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@ocean A federated Search engine with no ads, no inbuilt bias, Yacy, yacy.eskimo.com/
(DIR) Post #Au0NQeg7t1bMADeh8K by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-05-12T03:22:21Z
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@WandererUber@poa.st @ocean@raru.reYes, exactly! Even in its inception it was better and same as with search it got worse recently. I used to have a tab with SimplyTranslate open, it was a great tool to access Google Translate — not anymore, with languages I somewhat understand it's barely useful, I might as well use Reverso to translate some words, and with other languages — I'm not even sure the result has anything to do with original text. Even a year ago you could pull an article through it, fix a few sentences here and there and be done with it — it was good enough. Right now I'm giving it a few well-formed sentences in English — not even complex ones where it might get lost, to translate into my native language and… the result is gibberish. It can't handle passive voice at all, it's incorrect tenses, incorrect cases all over the place — this isn't a translation even, this is some word soup! A schoolkid with a dictionary translating word-for-word would do a much better job than this!The motive? It gives you slightly better results if you use it directly, not via API as SimplyTranslate does — here the motive is obvious, but otherwise… no, same as with search. Do they have ads in Google Translate? I don't know because I have those blocked. Does it give you better results in Google Chrome? I don't know, they might be incentivising me to use it in a way they could serve me more ads or harvest more data. I didn't do a thorough research — just sharing my observation and for me, the way I used to use it, it got noticeably worse.
(DIR) Post #Au0heGYONPeiTnnzsG by freetar@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-05-12T02:37:31.571170Z
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@ocean It became unusable since it demands the execution of proprietary malware. While you can elude this requirement, it is advisable to use 4get to access this and other search engines.
(DIR) Post #Au0hmYF0V1YjeWgm1I by Cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com
2025-05-12T07:11:01.034546Z
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@m0xEE @ocean it also forces you to have spanish in the menu for some stupid reason. not english tho.
(DIR) Post #Au0iY8YVIhzdtGUzyK by raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest
2025-05-12T07:19:36.950Z
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@ocean@raru.re I'm shocked.Shicked!... Well, not that shocked...
(DIR) Post #Au0j45TiHGEjc4Ue2K by ilsk@theblower.au
2025-05-12T03:42:18Z
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@ocean Remember when people still said “google is your friend” with a straight face?Remember when these jokes made sense?“The best place to hide a dead body is on page 2 of google search results.”“I wish I could Google search for things in my house.”“Is your name Google? Because you’ve got everything I’m searching for.”Remember when the results were so stable that one could reliably play Googlewhack?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack
(DIR) Post #Au0j46RyfCRUcyglyC by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2025-05-12T07:25:18.624038Z
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I use to love pages 8~10. You use the work "INDEX" and you could get a ton of FTP sites with weird crap.Today, you can't go past page 10. Most of the times you can't go past page 5. It's very difficult to find minor sites and independent blogs without very specific words.
(DIR) Post #Au1OkCuF9BPKvw6bJ2 by m@miruku.cafe
2025-05-12T10:52:25.757Z
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@ocean@raru.re okay theres a difference between worse on purpose, and they arent actively trying to make it betterthe latter is still bad, competition would remedy itbut ya know lets not twist words
(DIR) Post #Au1rJMp93vhMXqH65Q by Nudhul@shitposter.world
2025-05-12T20:32:30.760064Z
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@ocean so google turning into a giant ad listicle wasnt just in my head. well i quit using it anyway so fuck you sundar pajeeti
(DIR) Post #Au1s0DhYr3NIhkA3eK by LudditeMan@poa.st
2025-05-12T20:40:12.381516Z
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@ocean This begs the question that, in light of all this, WHY hasn't anyone ever considered scheduling a "Kill Dozer" joyride for Google HQ in Mountain View?
(DIR) Post #Au1ut3FFdL1c6qC0vI by 3c724e489aad44923f13c3ea5d37c993fd108fceab1399c9cbdeda498ee944f3@mostr.pub
2025-05-12T21:11:02.000Z
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Fuck that jeet
(DIR) Post #Au1v2kXS2RgezKKXEO by Azur_Fenix@varishangout.net
2025-05-12T21:14:16.404326Z
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@ocean this why I started using Bing about 10 or more years ago. Sure it's not great but it's better then google
(DIR) Post #Au1vEdPSMyCkLxG3ai by Azur_Fenix@varishangout.net
2025-05-12T21:16:23.468177Z
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@yafa @ocean it's always a fucking street shitter or the tiny hat mafia.
(DIR) Post #Au1vmr26E0NOS0eMnA by bigmattoidchimpin@annihilation.social
2025-05-12T21:22:38.821222Z
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@WandererUber @m0xEE @ocean I don't think I've ever encountered a machine-assisted translation system, but I distinctly recall thinking I hit the jackpot after jacking the early translation software that I do believe debuted during the latter nineties. I know that this was one of the rare occasions where I absolutely did notg procrastinate for a second. and immediately started IMing (on the great AOL Superhighway built by the Great Steven Case, PBUH) as many people I could in the great nations of France and Germany. Although the responses ran the gamut from utter revulsion to a few who died laughing at their keyboards, they were universal in politely asking to please stop this madness - is--whatever I may have thought I was saying in German or French was anything but, and this software could only be useful if my intent were to convince the native speakers that the the Tower of Babel really did fall directly on top of my head.
(DIR) Post #Au29fsu6GjofaJTlse by ShovelTrouble@pone.social
2025-05-12T23:57:34Z
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@jeff They weren't always.
(DIR) Post #Au29ftpWpDkmSQLdOS by AkIN5RMKVSkgqIBLWa.jeff@mk.magicka.org
2025-05-12T23:58:15.766Z
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@ShovelTrouble@pone.social haven't been not evil for well over a decade and a half.
(DIR) Post #Au2Bvt2jicEEYgHEQa by ShovelTrouble@pone.social
2025-05-12T23:59:21Z
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@jeff Thereabouts.
(DIR) Post #Au2Bvu3pw0hdiNncmW by AkIN5RMKVSkgqIBLWa.jeff@mk.magicka.org
2025-05-13T00:23:32.539Z
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@ShovelTrouble@pone.social they've been evil longer than they've not been evil
(DIR) Post #Au2qc0DPRIg58CuFIe by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-05-13T07:59:01Z
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@bigmattoidchimpin@annihilation.social @WandererUber@poa.st @ocean@raru.reHa-ha-ha-ha! Yeah, that's exactly why I called it machine-assisted translation — it wasn't a translation per se, more like a rough draft to work with. If you were doing translation commercially it could save you some time, but you still had to speak both languages to work with it. Software like that often included tools for proofreading and additional dictionaries you could plug in as it couldn't even detect the context — the field the text is from and you had to give it a few kicks in the back to get better results: that's a medical text, that's an engineering article, etc. Using wrong dictionaries could give you really funny results 😂The technology later got adopted in a more mainstream way, but the results were… yeah, like that 🤭When I use Google Translate via SimplyTranslate today I get thrown back to those days: like WTF is this?!!! This word obviously has different meaning in this context! I'm using it to translate posts in foreign languages on Fedi and it's still somewhat usable for that, but in its current form I sure won't be using it to write comments in foreign languages. I'm just not confident about the results AT ALL 😅
(DIR) Post #Au2rJrp00ZKPqAP9sm by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
2025-05-13T08:03:45Z
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@Cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com @ocean@raru.reNoticed that too! I'm keeping no cookies — they are getting cleaned up as soon as I close the tab, Google should know nothing about the region. The IP addresses I'm using are detected either as US or as Polish in all the GeoIP databases, and yet Español… where did THAT come from? 😂
(DIR) Post #Au3GcprE24o26ZaUe8 by Cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com
2025-05-13T12:50:51.580814Z
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@m0xEE @ocean not just that but you can't swap it out. you'd think the locale I'm using (English) would be the one that is firced