I've read that young folks have dropped the term and now say "search it". I'll have to ask my young ones. Unfortunately, they often answer in ways they think daddy wants to hear, despite my admonitions to stop that shit.

They seem to be going all-in on bad ideas lately, losing all that ad revenue from ai giving the answers before they can bombard the inquirer with ad slop and now this. Let them die a fiery death, lol

Another commenter said that the IT admin would simply change the search engine behind the omnibar. Easy money and nothing really changes except the kids betting better search results.

searxng if youre into self hosting

And yes, DDG is Bing results, we know.

Happy Kagi user here

I prefer Qwant. Better results, especially when searching in other languages than English.

Maybe "naïve" or "ill informed". "Foolish" is pretty harsh.

Except the results suck, and the results are the entire purpose

Had to switch to DDG on my phone. I rarely browse the internet that way, but when I was sitting in my flea market booth the ads were fucking unbearable.

the way it worked originally, pagerank. SEO, will never cease sadly; goodhart's law n all, but it's better than what we have now

You want the government running search?! That's an absolute horror show; you see the impossibility of neutrality.

Here in Florida, "homosexual teen" would lead to sites about conversion camps. We might just score a Democrat in the governor's mansion today, so that would change. And then change again. Imagine the non-stop public fight over what is and is not appropriate to show in a search. AH! (I'm actually having a giggle thinking about such fighting. "Trannie" would lead to results about transmissions one year, a transexual slur the next, banned altogether the next.)

As someone else pointed out, the IT admin will just change the search engine behind the omnibar. Speaking as a sysadmin, I wouldn't put up with a broken search bar, I'd simply fix it. Hell, even consumers have the power to change it in Chrome!