Just stop relying on Google – for ANYTHING

[mykehunt]

I hate to admit it, but I've recently started using Yandex for searches. When searching for very specific topics (combined with my ADD), I've found that a Google search can be almost more distracting from my goal than browsing on TikTok.

Yesterday, I updated my Bard account to Gemini Advanced (fool me once, fool me twice). Bard was decent as a complement to comparing or going back and forth in conversations with ChatGPT. Somehow, they made it worse. While using Gemini, I also reverted back to old habits and was using Google search again. I feel like it gets worse and worse every day, not so much exponentially but like the square-cube law (The square-cube law, in the context of ship sizes, often referred to in naval architecture and marine engineering, is a principle based on the fact that as a ship's dimensions are increased, its volume and weight grow disproportionately compared to its surface area.)

Or, as Google gets twice as greedy, they get 4x as bad.

[LopovJack]

Agreed. Been using DDG for years now. Recently I switched to Kagi. It is best imo. Is is easy to permanently elevate domain in your searches or lower/blocklist it.

[1970-01-01]

I'm finding out that reddit and YouTube are proving much more useful and overall better information than Google.com

This is not a good sign for the king of search.

[ProllyInfamous]

Funnily enough, the last few years of my Google usage, one of my most-popular search restraints was `site:reddit.com` [because reddit's own search feature has been TERRIBLE for over a decade], regardless of topic [technical, or not].

Last summer, I finally added reddit to my DNS blacklist, too.

[jjackson5324]

Try out Perplexity. It's really awesome for search with it's RAG feature.

[ProllyInfamous]

Perplexity.AI [for anybody wondering]

I have been using DDG for years, and Perplexity for one year.

*.google.com [etc.] are all blacklisted on my personal DNS host, as unnecessary relics of past two decades.

[hackerlight]

> It's really awesome for search

Is it good for anything other than search? I don't need search that much.