You don’t have to put up with Google

If anything looks wrong, read on the site! I just read the headlines: “Google Search as you know it is over”, “Google Search is dead”. I initially thought it was overdramatic, but after reading it, it’s kinda true. The good ol’ page with search results has been pushed further and further down every year, and it’s easy to see it going away altogether soon enough. I don’t think the “AI search” experience is inherently bad, what I dislike is the implementation. Google shows the AI overview by default on most (all?) queries, which pushes the real results further down. If you consider the poorly-indicated ads, questions card thingies, and whatever else Google decides to show in there, the results can already be really hard to find. So if you actually want to do some proper research, you gotta go through a lot of bullshit just to get to what matters to you. If your priorities aren’t the same as the trillion-dollar company’s (they never are), you gotta fight it on every step. This would be…