@stabby_cicada you can always use duckduckgo...
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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Searching "SpaceX starship" on Google just now in Firefox with adblock origin, not logged into Google, on mobile I get:
- Summary of the vehicle from Wikipedia with relevant pictures on the first card
- The SpaceX page for the vehicle on the second card
- Relevant videos on the third card
- SpaceX's twitter on the fourth card
Doing the same in mobile chrome, logged in, no ad block:
- Adverts for starship toys in the first card
- Relevant news stories in the second card
- Wikipedia summary
- SpaceX's starship page
- Relevant videos
- SpaceX twitter
So if you're getting other crap, use ad block. I presume the comic was made while Google was adding LLM results, which they aren't doing now. I can't say I noticed the LLM results while they were included.
Maybe if less people sucked the dick of LLMs then it wouldn't pervade every facet of our lives?
don't use google. basically any engine is better. I would recommend using a searxng instance. Soi that nobody can ever enshittify it ever again
If search engines really wanted to fix this--and it would require Google and Bing taking action, not smaller search engines--they could de-list any company that engaged in SEO so that nothing from that company showed up in searches at all.
That would just change how SEO worked, since the old methods would be less optimal. Search engines have to rank results somehow, and whatever that is there's going to be some way to game it.
Maybe I should have said that any attempts to game ranking--versus actually creating content (e.g., no repackaged content)--would result in being blacklisted until such content was removed.
Use searx: https://searx.github.io/searx/ It provides the expected results and do not track you. You can even host it yourself
Or you can take a look at the list of instances here: https://searx.space/
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