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Does it not bother you, search engines make their ai agent at the top of the page, then remove applicable results, so you have to use that agent to get that information?
You can't say they need the ai to find the results, because we saw search engines work better without them for 20 years.
I've only seen that with Google. If the result is useful, then I'll consider it. If not, then I'll scroll past to the search results.
Google's pure convenience, though. It's been compromised for years, but does have a huge database. If I'm not finding what I want, then I'll try something else.
Problem?
All the search engines became shit at once. Also I was forced to use bing the other day, shich ddg also is a sort of instance of, and both also have the ai agent lording over the results they no longer offer you.
All the search engines are engaged in an illegal shittrust to maximize revenue, and they've all removed many many applicable results, from links to streaming and downloading, to news articles, to everything.
Pure convenience my foot, Google is a shit company actively becoming worse, and only a frog in a boiling pot of google's shit doesn't see how bad it's gotten since 2021.
*ribbit!* *ribbit!*
You know there's an extension you can add that blocks Gemini from search results, right?
However, if you're truly that hand-wringingly concerned over this stuff, and don't like DuckDuckGo (or whatever), there's also a P2P search engine project, SearXNG: https://searx.space/
Thanks for the tip, I tried those other alternates and none worked well so far, the pay one is supposed to be good, maybe I will give that one another chance I do appreciate it.
But that's neither here nor there. They removed results we wanted, to force us to use their AI. That's the big problem here.
And google's full of shit about removing gemini. I followed multiple recent articles about removing it from my phone and none of the instructions worked, not even the ones published by google.
Idk about google search specifically because I use startpage, a proxy server that runs google through it, based in the netherlands, started in the wake of the Snowden revelations, that keeps your browsing history anonymous. But you can also view pages anonymously from it, though not all sites work with that.