Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
You don’t need to be tech litterate to see the rapid decline in Google search. Sure, if you are very young and new to the internet you may not know any better, but anyone over the age of 20 has witnessed first hand the enshittification of it. I didn’t switch due to tech litteracy, I switched because I couldn’t find was I was looking for and had to scroll past more and more ads.
Inertia is the only thing carrying them now. The graveyard of tech companies who thought they had it all and lost it is full of Ghosts calling to Google to join them.
The global pressure to de-Americanize tech has never been higher. Perfect entry time for disruption.
What’s your point here? Do you genuinely believe that most of the internet consumers have actively switched away from Google as their default search engine?
I just wanted to say that people don’t really change defaults easily. You’re projecting very hard here. You personally have issues with Google search results (as a matter of fact so do I) and thus you changed the default search engine.
But try stepping outside of the bubble for a moment. You’ve made two strong assumptions there, that people don’t like the results and secondly, that they dislike it enough to change the default. And here’s where I disagree, (despite personally falling into the same camp a yours of caring) people mostly don’t give a shit. At every step of these chains, only a fraction of the people bother enough to fiddle around with tech stuff
Yes, but “fiddle around with tech stuff” means selecting a different search engine from a menu in your search bar. Not exactly tech stuff. It’s not like we don’t see articles in every outlet about the evils of alphabet and options abound.
But we agree. Not caring and not knowing are significant barriers.
Ok. Lol. You too.
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As someone posted on Showerthoughts, this site has a huge tech literate echo chamber problem.
They were absolutely right.
You don’t need to be tech litterate to see the rapid decline in Google search. Sure, if you are very young and new to the internet you may not know any better, but anyone over the age of 20 has witnessed first hand the enshittification of it. I didn’t switch due to tech litteracy, I switched because I couldn’t find was I was looking for and had to scroll past more and more ads.
Inertia is the only thing carrying them now. The graveyard of tech companies who thought they had it all and lost it is full of Ghosts calling to Google to join them.
The global pressure to de-Americanize tech has never been higher. Perfect entry time for disruption.
What’s your point here? Do you genuinely believe that most of the internet consumers have actively switched away from Google as their default search engine?
Is reading not really your thing? Do you just like disingenuous arguments. My point was clear. If you have anything to say, please do.
I just wanted to say that people don’t really change defaults easily. You’re projecting very hard here. You personally have issues with Google search results (as a matter of fact so do I) and thus you changed the default search engine.
But try stepping outside of the bubble for a moment. You’ve made two strong assumptions there, that people don’t like the results and secondly, that they dislike it enough to change the default. And here’s where I disagree, (despite personally falling into the same camp a yours of caring) people mostly don’t give a shit. At every step of these chains, only a fraction of the people bother enough to fiddle around with tech stuff
Yes, but “fiddle around with tech stuff” means selecting a different search engine from a menu in your search bar. Not exactly tech stuff. It’s not like we don’t see articles in every outlet about the evils of alphabet and options abound.
But we agree. Not caring and not knowing are significant barriers.
Correct. I am.
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And to you as well.
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Friendly reminder that you can block, and you should block users that are acting like complete morons.
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