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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago

Turns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.

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Turns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago
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https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/

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  • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    Godamnit. It’s so hard to guess which parts of the world suck from incompetence and which ones from active evil nowadays.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    This has been known since 2008 by marketers. Even Google employees outright stated it at conferences.

  • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    This is why we need to go back to personally-curated site directories monke-beepboop

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    When using a search engine whete you know what site you want info from, you can add site:hexbear.net to the search, for example is communism okay site:hexbear.net would only return results from hexbear

    i stopped using google ‘as intended’ a long time ago, i mostly use it because i can’t spell for shit

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      sadly they broke a bunch of the boolean keywords and use of quotes a long time ago

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        and use of quotes

        yeah, that’s mostly why it’s useless to me now.

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    I thought this was somewhat common knowledge, but having the documents on the public record instead of just the word of an ex-engineer should be a big deal.

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