Pluralistic: Google’s enshittification memos (03 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.

  • @phoneymouseEnglish
    4•9 months ago

    Google doesn’t return good results either though.

    If you want best effort, use DDG as your main search. If the first query doesn’t bring back what you want add g! to it and it will redirect to Google. yt! goes to YouTube, b! goes to bing, w! Wikipedia, etc.

    • @deletedEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      I think google peaked in 2016 and since then it’s in steady decline.

      I use to assume if google didn’t return good results then no enough content is on the web.

      Thanks for the tip!