Google Search officially retires cache link
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It feels exactly like that today.
Google didn't need to improve much over the years to stay in business; they only needed to keep ahead of the SEO spammers. They did that for a while. But now we have SundarGoogle which expended active energy getting worse and worse and worse.
Google is done.
So what does `<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">` do for Google search now?
Lots of discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39198329
I also use assistant a lot and it too has fallen off a cliff. Assistant in 2016 was better than it is today. Crazy.
Still really shitty. I used it constantly. I hate new Google.
I started seeing people mention kagi in other threads about google here.
After seeing many mentions, and all positive, and the sales pitch made sense (you are the customer instead of the product), I tried it.
That was months ago and I haven't felt any desire to cancel yet.
There was a small desire to cancel initially because their pricing tiers at the time meant I actually had to care how many queries I made, to figure out what tier I needed, which was super agrevating. But just a few weeks later they changed their plans and although my rate went up a little, I no longer have to think about queries, and I get both myself and my wife. No longer agrevated.
That was the only hint of a wish to cancel, and it no longer exists.
I'm not even using most of it's coolest features yet like lenses and personal filters or ai. Just the basic search.
Besides, Kagi actually shows you results for the -exact- query you enter. It does not replace your query with whatever it thinks you want. Kagi will respect quotes and Boolean operators and other advanced features that google, DDG, et al simply ignore.
I find it nearly impossible to find anything on DDG because it's so aggressive about just straight up ignoring my query to show me something else. Kagi will quite simply give you anything in the index matching your query or nothing at all. You know, like how a search query is supposed to work.
I especially like the ability to block things from appearing in search results, like those pesky AI generated web pages that simply regurgitate other websites poorly, or Wikipedia 'clones'.