(In the case that someone in Lemmy still use Google)
Here the funny part, google knew this shit would happen. How you ask? Well, see google has had this problem for a long time.
When google first came out, there was all sorts of techniques you could use to boost your PageRank. Google had to tweak and tweak and tweak to fix it so that nazi sites would not come up when you looked up Jewish holocaust memorial museums for example.
Seems they’ve learned nothing. And yet they’re still one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Scary. Let’s add AI to the mix now.
At least they haven't used ChaosGPT for this.
Lord and master, hear my call! I have need of Thee! from the spirits that I called Sir, deliver me!
Goethe - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
What to use for search engine. Even ddg is not giving reliable results.
If you believe Google is the most reliable, you can still use it in a private way via :
- Startpage
Startpage is a private search engine known for serving Google and Bing search results. One of Startpage's unique features is the Anonymous View, which puts forth efforts to standardize user activity to make it more difficult to be uniquely identified. The feature can be useful for hiding some network and browser properties.
https://www.startpage.com/
- SearxNG https://searxng.org/
SearXNG is an open-source, self-hostable, metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing any information itself.
There's plenty of public instances too https://searx.space/
- Whoogle https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
Get Google search results, but without any ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file.
Couple of public instances too. Basically SearxNG with ONLY google as a source. https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances
Thank you
Any alternative to Google Alerts?
Long time looking for such service which monitors web for keywords.
DDG queries can't really be written the same way you'd write one in Google if you're after effective results. It'll take some time to get used to it, tbh I was using DDG alongside Google until I fully switched.
I use mainly Andisearch, also has AI but relay on reliable sources (and one of the most privat search out there), Startpage and Whoogle use the old Google search engine, Mojeek also is fine, Groot search has a own search index, Etools a Suiss made Metasearch engine and some more. In the Vivaldi Forum you'll find the, maybe, most complete list of search engines you can try.
Google: "Hey, do not be evil."
Google years later: "Can I has all the profits and personal data?”
Google after that: " I am the Lizard Queen!"
Google hasn't been dogfooding in a long time have they? I wonder what products Googlers use.
Hell's attorneys are seriously lacking. I've been waiting for them to sue Google for DMCA violations 🤣.
