At the start of November, Chris Phillips, Google's vice president and general manager for education, said K-12 schools will soon have to accept the company's AI services...
I started using them 2 weeks ago. Previously I was using DDG, occasionally when searching and didn’t get an answer I added “!g” to query which redirected me to Google, but I don’t think in those scenarios Google ever had better results.
With Kagi I so far did not have need to go to Google or DDG at all.
I also like that I’m in charge. For example I wanted to avoid buying from Amazon. Unfortunately it is not enough to not use their site, because they also show up on top of search results. I can select their service and deprioritize them so now I see other stores when searching for a product.
So far I’m sold.
Google was great 2000-2010, but it got worse, supposedly by SEO manipulations, but I also heard (maybe it was Cory Doctorow) that actually because they are making money on ads they actually have incentive to not provide the best results as they want us to spend more time on their site.
It was Ed Zitron not Cory Doctorow. But yes, search was not bringing in enough revenue so they optimized for ads seen (having to search more than once)
I started using them 2 weeks ago. Previously I was using DDG, occasionally when searching and didn’t get an answer I added “!g” to query which redirected me to Google, but I don’t think in those scenarios Google ever had better results.
With Kagi I so far did not have need to go to Google or DDG at all.
I also like that I’m in charge. For example I wanted to avoid buying from Amazon. Unfortunately it is not enough to not use their site, because they also show up on top of search results. I can select their service and deprioritize them so now I see other stores when searching for a product.
So far I’m sold.
Google was great 2000-2010, but it got worse, supposedly by SEO manipulations, but I also heard (maybe it was Cory Doctorow) that actually because they are making money on ads they actually have incentive to not provide the best results as they want us to spend more time on their site.
It was Ed Zitron not Cory Doctorow. But yes, search was not bringing in enough revenue so they optimized for ads seen (having to search more than once)
Your right.
I think Doctorow mentioned him on Adam Conover’s podcast when giving an example of enshitification and that made me attribute it to the wrong person.