Technology

I read half this article and just thought, “yeah no shit.” I swear Google conditioned everyone to just settle for dumb answers.

It’s amazing how few people understand how SEM works or the fact that Google makes services for freely available in order to build a profile on you and sell targeted ad space. The algorithm is tuned to for clicks. The amount of sponsored results and crappy listicles you need to scroll through is unreal. “Reddit” was the shortcut to opinions outside of sponsored influencers with affiliate links… but I’m sure TikTok and YouTube will fill that void just fine.

I discovered the kagi search engine last week and it's so much better. No ads. I can move favored sites up or pin them in the search results.

It feels absolutely nutty that it's gone from

• Reddit search sucks, I literally use google to search stuff in Reddit
• Things I've never seen: Page 2 of Google

to

• I literally need to add reddit when I do a google search
• I cannot find what I want after page 5

Google used to be synonymous with reliable results and Reddit as the awkward website you barely spoke about. Now you need to use reddit to find proper results because the slow bleeding that is SEO has screwed over Google.

Big suprise! I'm this close to Uninstaller reddit.

Even though I think places like Lemmy and Reddit are awesome for hunting down other people's experiences, I wonder if guiding people to places like Codidact or Stack Overflow for actual questions and answers is a better solution for the world. If Codidact joined the Fediverse, that would be ideal. It would just be important to have redundancy in the datasets of each instance. Would suck to lose an entire subject's worth of answers if an instance shutdown.

Wow, one meaningless, entirely replaceable piece of shit brought two giant companies to their knees. Good job, capitalism. Such a fragile snowflake.