The End of Google Search. The internet giant is “changing the formula” of its products and media folks are beginning to assume that there will be no search traffic in the future…and fretting about their survival.
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This is the thing I think about when I feel like I lived through the peak of civilization: that we could look up anything we needed or wanted to on Google, and then they replaced that with this lying robot butler.
What are kottke-ites using for search engines these days?
noai.duckduckgo.com
Kagi, mostly, which seems to be built on top of pre-decline Google tech and DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo! Big fan these days.
I switched to DuckDuckGo and few weeks ago and it’s mostly fine but Google is still better for some queries.
FWIW DuckDuckGo also has AI summaries. I hate them and tell them every time they come up to "never" show them. Apparently when you click that it means "never show the AI summary again when I do this exact search". Sigh.
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