Google has worried for years that Apple would one day expand its internet search technology, and has been working on ways to prevent that from happening.
Google is still the best in my experience, at least for stuff I search for. As long as they’re just slightly better what reason do they have to improve?
Yeah this is the issue. I’ve been trying DDG and while it’s got less bloat it’s either the same as Google or less accurate 99% of the time. There are times I was searching for something I had found before and had to switch back to Google because it wasn’t coming up in DDG
Trying to get back to Google after a few years on DDG then Qwant felt really off. Kagi was the real deal for me but it is still to expensive for the average consumer 😕
My last experiences with Google were non-trivial privacy policy consent request popups that made me leave.
The one before was having to clean up my mother’s laptop after she installed a popular FOSS program from a search result ad infested with ad and malware.
Google is still the best in my experience, at least for stuff I search for. As long as they’re just slightly better what reason do they have to improve?
Yeah this is the issue. I’ve been trying DDG and while it’s got less bloat it’s either the same as Google or less accurate 99% of the time. There are times I was searching for something I had found before and had to switch back to Google because it wasn’t coming up in DDG
Trying to get back to Google after a few years on DDG then Qwant felt really off. Kagi was the real deal for me but it is still to expensive for the average consumer 😕
My first few experiences with Kagi were good, on par with Google, but my latest weren’t. Especially in my local language.
My last experiences with Google were non-trivial privacy policy consent request popups that made me leave.
The one before was having to clean up my mother’s laptop after she installed a popular FOSS program from a search result ad infested with ad and malware.
Yeah there was just an article on ars about malware from an ad pretending to be keepass.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/