I stopped using Google entirely. I honestly feel violated every time it strips out words that I asked it to search for on the very first page. NO, I said search for this, do not do something ELSE you piece of shit.

I actually use DuckDuckGo exclusively now, not because it got better (it did a tiny bit), but because Google got so absolutely horrible that DDG is now actually better! I have the habit of trying Google if I can't find something with DuckDuckGo, but honestly I don't even know why I bother because not once has it helped since this degradation started.

I do wonder why though. I got the feeling that maybe they just gave up. Maybe they don't have to care anymore being a de facto monopoly and having so many other projects. It's hard not to think that spammers run the internet now... Ad networks run everything and then content is just generated shit spammed into results and feeds.

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