Google is an example of psyops. It is useful for finding uncontested information such as the address of a shop, but to find the truth about events in the world, you are better served elsewhere such as Yandex.
I wish he would have mentioned that NATO has six arenas of operation: air, land, sea, space, cyber, and cognitive.
What an interesting example you picked considering its tight affiliation with Russian Gov and the well known record of censoring news and search results
Just one of examples https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex...
You sir are just hilarious!
I suspect that whatever you consider to be "suppressed" is actually freely available and being discussed to whatever degree people care to discuss it.
Uh, what’s the problem with that?
Yandex at least returns results from some of the above but at least has a mix of third party websites, indie news sites, forums, etc.
Do you honestly feel that this statement is incorrect?
Personally, I agree. Google is no longer _the_ primary method I use to find things.
I use Google when searching for current news or local restaurants or businesses. I use it as a sort of bookmark manager when I can't remember a domain or specific webpage I'm looking for. I use it when I really need to trust the source of information and know it isn't a hallucination. I even still use it sometimes for coding questions when I just need to remember a function name or something very short and I can get it with a simple Google search of 2 or 3 words. ChatGPT would give me the answer, but it would require a longer prompt or give me a wordier answer.
Uhh yeah? Search isn't a trivial thing to implement and they still have the best product
Maybe the results are less relevant now because of AI spam, but they'll figure this out eventually. I'd say a good compromise is just using ublock origin to filter AI spam sites out of results
They are stuck like Kodak, if we don’t break them up, we have a bleak future.
The cost of starting a competitive search engine is incredibly high, and unlikely to get real funding as a) the business model would likely have to be subscription based to align users interests long term with the companies interests, this alone is probably enough to make it a pass for most VCs, b) the incumbents in this space have an immoral amount of cash to spend on either acquiring, bankrupting or destroying any meaningful competition.
Do I use Google traditional Google Search (google.com) to find things? Rarely. Do I use Google Maps to find bars / restaurants / order food? All the time.
I guess the nuance is what we're trying to find. LLM's swallowed the listicle - I don't need google.com to find an autogenerated list of "best restaurants in London". But if I'm in London at at lunch, and I need a coffee nearby, it's still useful.
Google is still the best free search engine.