Google Search Results?

[electronman1729]

Has anyone noticed the recent short comings in google results recently? I went to look up haw to disable a safety feature in my 4 Runner and it seems almost no results come up. Seemed like a week ago stuff like this was fine. Any results that do come up seem to be all advertisements.

Did I just look at too much porn and google is limiting my MAC/IP addresses?

[ChickNorris]

Wait . . . there is stuff other than porn & porn advertising in google search results?

[Irving]

I feel like I've noticed a pretty steep decline over the last year or two. Seems like two pages of hardly related things and that's it.

[WETWRKS]

Yep. Huge reduction. It is all about funneling you to paid advertising.

[spqrzilla]

Google made its reputation on getting the most comprehensive search results. Today, Google censors your results to satisfy its Chinese masters and to satisfy its corporate ego to coerce you into goodthink.

[GilpinGuy]

Best alternatives?

[Zundfolge]

Google gets worse every day. At this point the only Google search I use is maps (because I like street view).

I find I get more useful results with Duck Duck Go.

[brutal]

Yes.

I used duck duck go today when I couldn't find some technical details regarding this (long expletive coming) )&@(*%*&@%$*&*&^(@#*$(__@#*@#&@@# Sawgrass sublimation Printer my wife uses.

Found the mfr tech info right off. Didn't help the POS, but I found out what the error code was and a few potential fixes - none of which have worked so far. ;-( $500 boat anchor I guess.

(more off topic ) FWIW, the other printer she uses is a mfr I truly despise, but the best lower cost option for her to print larger format and as a backup. Took me 4 hours to get that MF running right out of the damn box.

[Wulf202]

I use duck duck go

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[whitewalrus]

I use duck duck go

That?s probably the best alternative that I have found.

[3beansalad]

From what I've seen a VPN will improve Google search results as well.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I rarely ever use Google. Evil company and the product is just getting more and more mediocre. I used to use GoodSearch since I could divert credit for clicks over to the NRA Civil Defense Fund but nowadays I just use DuckDuckGo. Mozilla Firefox for browsing (avoid Chrome whereever possible) and Thunderbird for email. About the only thing I don't like about my current set up is that I can't quite seem to get myself convert my mail server from POP3/SMTP to IMAP. I like accessing my email from multiple devices and have it remain on server until I explicitly delete it. I wish there was a Linux distro for phones as powerful and open market as Android but it's pretty much a two-party system for phone OSes and I just don't like iOS.

[electronman1729]

Been using DuckDuckGo, seems I get what google used to be for what I'm into.

[Zundfolge]

Mozilla Firefox for browsing (avoid Chrome whereever possible) and Thunderbird for email.
While its based on Chromium, I have really found I like Brave. Mozilla has become almost as evil as Alphabet (and the huge irony is that Brave was started by one of the founders of Mozilla, Brendan Eich ... who Mozilla fired because he supported Proposition 8 in CA back when even Obama was against gay marriage).


I wish there was a Linux distro for phones as powerful and open market as Android but it's pretty much a two-party system for phone OSes and I just don't like iOS.
Librem 5 is gettting a lot of positive press https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

and truth is there are several roll-your-own Android ROMs out there that are pretty much Google-free. LineageOS is probably the most free https://lineageos.org/

If I ever find myself needing a smartphone I'll probably go either the Librem or Lineage route (but frankly I don't want even a dumb phone so I'll be kicking and screaming the whole way)


I do wish that Duck Duck Go's maps were as good as Google Maps.

[iego]

I'm back to digging Firefox for the bazillionith time. It just works, and, and they value security with products like Firefox Focus.

Some of their privacy plugins are the best on the market (noscript)

Once I heard that Microsoft Edge was also going Chromium, yea, no.

-John