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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.

old guy takes long hit on the bong

“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Google was a “disrupter”

    Which means they burnt investor money for years to deliver a great product while not making any profit.

    Once they gain market share and are the default, enshitification begins and people eventually wonder why they’re still using it.

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      10 months ago

      Haven’t used Google in months and haven’t felt any loss in my quality of life. Protonmail and DuckDuckGo, easy peasy

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      10 months ago

      Except that I wouldn’t use Google Search as an example of enshittification.

      It isn’t like Google tried to break search to increase profits. Instead, the industry around Google changed to adapt to Google’s search algorithms.

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      10 months ago

      Butterfly meme:

      Literally everything bad vaguely related to tech

      Lemmy users: “Is this enshittification?”

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        What’s an example of Lemmy complaining about something you would say isn’t enshittification, but the Lemmy users do say is enshittification?

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          10 months ago

          This. Google is losing the fight against SEO (and now AI), they’re not intentionally giving you bad search results. Bing, DDG, etc. are all facing the same struggles.