Google Search has been dying for a long time.
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God how i hate ai. Because of its insistence on using outdated training data you have to tell it five times that is wrong before it will do a search. Then the political correctness filters kick in and turns the answer into a useless mass of "both sides have a point" that goes on for three pages. And in the end you have no idea what is real and what is hallucination.
So you do a DDG search and the results are two pages of ai generated slop.
Kill it before it grows.
Perhaps https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ or even https://lite.duckduckgo.com/ would be less annoying.
Why are you engaging with this stuff at all?
Because you have to travel down a road before you know it goes no where.
Then you go back and take the other path and find it goes no where also.
FYI: DDG is a traditional search engine
I literally cannot google search "hardware store city name" and get anything relevant. I would use a phonebook if I had one.
Oh my god you just made a great argument for the return of phone books.
Except now they will be written by AI, an updated one gets left on your doorstep 3 times a week, and the built in DRM sets itself on fire when the new one is printed.
I don't even tell people to Google it anymore. I switched to saying search so no one thinks I'm pointing them to Google com
Nah i am at the point that i can live without. Most of the internet is dead now anyway.
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