Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Google search has been a shitshow for years.
I instinctively scroll down 1-2 screens now to get past all the ads and promoted pages. It’s like Amazon the few times I use that. Fully enshittified. I just use Bing most of the time which isn’t any better.
I started using Swisscows about a year ago and I’m never going back. Clean, simple, uncluttered. No trackers or “personalization”.
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No true crime and no tiddies? Is there even anything on that search engine?
It’s not all Google’s fault though. With the obliteration of online news and forums, there just isn’t much indexable content out there that isn’t trash. It’s only getting worse with AI spitting out garbage remixes of the same crap on pages that post more ads than content. Reddit was a bastion of real content written by real humans delivered in a mostly friendly way.
So at this point, what is Google supposed to even serve? No one wants the trash content. The next “best” thing is Quora and that’s entirely hostile even if it manages to accidentally contain valid content.
Corporate has managed to destroy the Internet.
So at this point, what is Google supposed to even serve?
Google has the entire Deja News (Usenet) archive, more valuable than Reddit except for the older age. And they don’t let you access it anymore.
What are they doing with it?
Google is doing nothing with their Usenet archive. Hopefully they haven’t destroyed it.
The Internet has been slowly getting gutted since at least 2015.
It is to the point that a regular search engine is useless for actual research unless you are a power user and even then it is censored.
It’s called enshittification for a reason.
What does the “en” prefix accomplish in that word?
It’s shocking to see how bad they’ve become at what used to be their core function. I mean their brand name became the verb for looking something up on the internet. Now it just returns a useless mix of advertising, blogspam, AI spam, and sometimes-useful reddit results.
I’m also not quite happy with the search experience due to them constantly moving UI components around randomly. First they started shuffling around the order of the search tabs (All, Images, Videos, Shopping, News) erratically, and now they’ve also decided to also start including what they believe may be related search terms there as well, sometimes.
