The company discussed SGE during its Q3 2023 earnings.
  • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh thank God. I’ve been having too much fun with generative technology and feeling way too safe. I need someone like Google to remind me that you have to pay for freedom. For a moment there, I almost had a happy thought! Terrifying…

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m over the era of ads dominating our lives. I know not everyone can do so, but I’m willing to pay a fair rate for a fair search and AI service. If we have to continue to live in this system then I think we should better enable competition in the tech space and stop some of these mafia business monopoly tactics.

    Some companies are just disgustingly greedy. I pay for a new TV, for example, and that thing is trying to download ads and report my usage non-stop and I paid fairly to own the device. I’d support any political party that actually wants to protect consumers from the nonsense business pull.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      I’m willing to pay a fair rate for a fair search

      Best I can do is you paying me and I still give you ads mixed in.

  • carbonara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Some of my friends just switched to DDG just because Google isn’t reliable anymore since the results became only ads

    • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      DDG isn’t all that great anymore either because they get their results from Bing - which has also gone to shit. Any alternative search providers that gets their results from Google or Bing (which is most of them) are all nearly worthless now, IMHO. The ones that operate their own engines and crawlers, such as Kagi, are the ones that give results like we used to get before enshittification.

      But then again, with the death of web forums and everything being consolidated into a small handful of sites, site:reddit.com is required for almost every search query I do these days. If I want to read something written by an actual human being then I need to look up via Reddit or else results are just 98% AI-generated SEO garbage. Like I wish I was making that up but the majority of search results now are actual throwaway trash; pages upon pages of completely nonsensical generated rubbish.