ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris.
With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.
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Fortunately there are other search engines which still work, and some even let you block AI results. Setting google to only search results from before 2019 also helps, but it doesnt work for image searches for some reason.
@parismarx I started using #Kagi several months ago. After a quick foray with their free trial, I quickly decided that $10/month was well worth all the value they deliver (search, translate, assistant...).
Since switching to Kagi, I don't think I've done a single Google search, unless it was by accident.
@parismarx I read this with much interest. As I was reading I found out that I had already done it!
@parismarx isnt the web already dead?
To me its virtually useless now
@kcpoole @parismarx We're on the open social web right now.
Rumors of the web's death are greatly exaggerated. 😅
Last year I put together a guide to help people get off US tech — and that includes Google. There are a lot of alternatives there they will help you make a plan to pull away from Google services, and all the rest of them too.
@parismarx The Norwegian weather service Yr (meaning drizzle) is popular also internationally:
https://www.yr.no/en
They also have mobile apps.
Made by MET Norway and the public broadcasting company NRK. Free and no ads.
@parismarx I read that article when you first posted it, and it’s still solid.
A question, though, that occurred to me with this Google search change and I was reminded about scanning over this article again: StartPage strips out the trackers from Google search results and offers those for its search results. What’s idea going to happen to it now that Google will effectively not offer any (clickable/reliable/not slop) search results?
I’m going to throw this onto a stand-alone post as well in case others have any insight.
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