If the Google name is on it, privacy invasion is in it.
This and the declining quality of results explain why I haven't used Google search in years.
Now, explain why Grok will not be more of the same? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
This and the declining quality of results explain why I haven't used Google search in years.
Now, explain why Grok will not be more of the same? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The advantage of using Grok (or any alternative to Google Search!) is that there isn't an entire ecosystem of pervasive prying Alphabet services to go along with it: Gmail, Youtube, Google Play, Google SMS (Verizon terminated its SMS for text and recommended all users use Google instead, in November 2024), Google Meet or whatever they call it, and probably more. It can track you everywhere, and a deliberate effort is required to evade it with alternative providers.
But this doesn't explain how/why Musk/X/xGrok isn't just more of the same.
Just like Google, Musk is driven by greed. What he really wants is some of Google's money for himself. And the easy way to achieve this is by doing what Google does --- or perhaps even working in cooperation with them.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Regarding jqp's conclusion: I hope he is wrong.
But it should come as no real surprise that hope proved to be an ineffective antidote to greed.
But the LOVE of money (not money itself), is the root of all evil.
And this applies to everyone, everywhere, at anytime...
You can sign-up using X / Google / Apple accounts or email so you are not forced to be locked in an ecosystem but you are benefiting from answers coming from and index made up of scapped web pages and an index of X posts (+others)
What have you used instead? Other search engines? LLMs?
Any centralized eco-system with interconnected products/services = privacy invasion by design.