this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don’t use Google. It’s an advertising company. Why would anyone expect to get actual results from a company whose entire existence depends on you clicking ads.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't use Google. Google uses you.

(Just to clarify, I am saying this in agreement with your comment)

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Real eyes Realize Real lies

[–] hundertzwoelf@piefed.social -2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I agree. However, I still feel like it delivers the best search results.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

As long as you really like pinterest and nothing else.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

that's not been the case for years at this point

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Use 4get! I self host my own but you can find endless public instances online, like 4get.ca

4get is a proxy search engine that strips out all the tracking and garbage, so on the search instance you can pick whether you want it to use Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and a bunch of other ones.

"IQ Test" with every fucking search?? Hard pass.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Gave you tried a Kagi demo? I’ve been using it for months and it’s been markedly better results for most searches.

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 week ago

Try Duck Duck Go for a week.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're rationalising supporting a toxic company.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Welcome to capitalism.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't anymore. It's SEO is bonked.

And even then, there's alternatives anyway. Sightly better search isn't worth supporting Google.

You can't say you're anti-AI and then literally help fund AI.