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The current CEO is awful.

>>53929766
Of course he's a pajeet

chainlink solves this

>>53929406
why would it be? is there some news I missed?
the search engine is total dogshit, completely useless for finding anything besides AI-generated articles. but nobody seems to care, I feel like the only person who's noticed.

>>53929425
No...
WebTV!

>>53930764
Me too. Its insanely frustrating trying to find any good info. Its like the whole internet is now clickbait bullshit, paid video courses, social media, youtube, and porn.

>>53931154
good luck if you're looking for a specific resource that's not wikipedia or reddit. the best part is you can change your search terms all you want and still get the same results. it's maddening.

>>53931154
I like it. It's like the old internet where you couldn't find anything.

>>53931228
Thats not true at all. Even askjeeves you could change 1 word and get completely different websites

>>53931246
Like that time you were shopping for a pen for your dad's birthday and were directed to PenIsland.com?

>>53931297
Are the pens under legal limit?

>>53931154
>>53929406
yes. ever since those captchas started fucking with me and 4chan got the new captchas i knew its days were numbered.
i also kneww they censored things but sometimes feels like im searching a big offline document

>>53932283
What!? What you mean? This is the age of information™!=?! Anyhow you searched for "white inventor" but you probably meant "black inventor" so how about we just give you black and white photos on black people.

pajeets ruin everything

>>53929406
>google “arknights change language”
>first highlighted result takes me to a completely unrelated result for a different game

>>53929406
Android will keep them going, but their search engine sucks balls and I don't use it anymore. People are retarded though, so they might keep using it from habit and inertia alone. Also, search is less important if people have accounts/history that you train an algo on. So algos/accounts, youtube, android. Sadly I think they will survive.

>>53933631
Whats a better search engine?

>>53933604
You should use baidu, chink

>>53933652
Shit is bad right now. I switch between different ones, yandex, ddg, bing even brave. They all suck in their own shitty ways.

>>53929406
search is crap but they got quantum computers and more money than god and ai behind locked doors

>>53933713
they replaced the yellow pages for all business, maps, email, etc etc etc they're fine

>>53930764
>>53931154
internet is very small these days

>>53933701
thats what i figured

>>53929896
MS also has one and he is doing great. it's the googlejeet in particular that needs to go back. google is a good company and still has the biggest cash cow in human history, but they're stagnant for too long now for their power level and the CEO is the reason.

Normalfags will use it and chrome and Android for a decade by just momentum and routine.
Like they used yahoo.
Until a new generation totally forgot it or never even knew how huge yahoo was.

>>53929406
How did it get so bad so quickly? A couple years ago it was let they were reading my mind. You could even fuck up your wording and it would still understand. Now it’s painful to us.

>>53933792
Same question to you.
What is a better search engine?

>>53933859
*like
*us

I've been using Bing ever since I found out that YouTube is fine with videos of gays shoving things up each other's asses and I'm already half way to my second $10 Walmart gift card (they have Amazon also) doing the Rewards. I use Outlook email, OneDrive, Word, Edge, all of it. Edge on mobile has ad blocking also, and you can set a flag where it blocks video ads (including YouTube).

>>53933859
nobody cares enough to make geocities webpages about their special snowflake interest anymore.

>>53934061
And especially USENET being let to go to ruin from spam.

>>53933652
>>53933866
unironically brave search is better

https://search.brave.com/

>>53929406
Local search is all they have now. There ads are shit offer shit roi

>>53934278
hey brave shill, what's going to happen when they implement manifest v3? will brave just not go along?

>>53934278
Better in what way?

>>53934292
don't know what that means tranny, but Brave search is unironically a good search engine

>>53934298
less shilled Ad results, sometimes has a nice AI generated summary at the top that cites the top sources, more and more accurate results

>>53934032
Oh, another big reason I am liking this move is that with MSN News all of the articles have been put into an MSN wrapper so you never hit a paywall or ad block blocker.

>>53934303
to make it simple for you brainlet: manifest v3 means that extensions like uBlock Origins will not work any longer in chrome based browsers.

>>53933732
>Google is a good company
You literally can only search several pages of (((mainstream))) links now. The fuck are you smoking

>>53929406
Oy vey, be more respectful to jewgle

>>53934335
>more accurate results
it's learning AI returns what you are looking for
I get #250 before anything I'm looking for is relevant
Then again I also IP hop, block cookies and have a real anonymous browsing habit

>>53934032
>>53934353
Oh, and MSN's weather page is also exceptionally useful. I used to *only* use the National Weather Service, but now I only need NWS during potential severe weather. The MSN one will even tell you stuff like how many minutes it will be before rain should be hitting your area, and then it starts showing how many minutes of rain should be left once it starts. It has a breddy gud radar map to watch the rain and storm systems on too.

The main things I wish Microsoft would catch up on are maps/navigation, a phone OS, better integration of the various parts of MSN, improving search (it mostly does the job but occasionally a specific, relatively narrow need is not well met, if it all), and having some sort of public profile page service like Live used to provide. I do not have any social media at all but sometimes wish I had a "personal page" I could link to and they used to have one.

>>53933652
Ungoogling myself for years, but the other engines simply are not there
Brave is the most based, but shit mos tof the time. With everything else , you have to swallow more or less globohomo pill. My order is

Brave > Cuckcuckgo > Yandex > Bing (got quite better recently) > Startpage > if all else fails then goolag

Google maps are still the best for streetview

>>53934674
I figure Maps is one of Google's strongest holds on *everything*, but it doesn't get much press for being so. Most people seem to constantly be driving all over the place and there is no other service that comes even close to Google Maps. This isn't just about figuring out how to get somewhere, but also just getting "inspirations" for where to go eat and stuff like that, and of course if one is in a strange area it will tell them what all restaurants are there and take them to whichever they choose, possibly after glancing at a few reviews and such.

If the government ever winds up forcing them to break off the ad business, all of that will become essentially sunk, either directly or via internal subsidy (profits from one product propping up products that make nothing on their own). I would prefer to just see Google get a better CEO, heal up a few product weaknesses, and stop allowing the gays to shove things up each other's asses on YouTube, plus making YouTube more accountable for false automated bans and copyright claims. They are generally a very strong contributor to the economy and shouldn't be kneecapped by a bunch of clueless politicians.

>>53933866
yandex

>>53929406
ChatGPT will take over
Google and Jewtube are both dying

>>53931154
definitely true. i've been using qwant and yandex to supplement my searches, but its not as good as old school 2003 google

>>53934813
>Most people seem to constantly be driving all over the place
lol

>>53934915
the majority of search queries are more cases where people look for a specific website or document and use the search engine as internet database lookup tool with natural language input. ChatGPT does have some niches where is can be useful for internet search queries, but i still don't see how it will really take over the whole market.

>>53935341
I am a hermit and have only owned a bicycle for about a decade so that's how it looks from here. The rare times that I drive someone else's vehicle into town, a small town, there is just so much traffic, and I am sure that these people are constantly going here and there. Some of the people I know are constantly driving somewhere doing something, almost as if they are running from themselves, afraid of the silence, afraid of their own inner dialogues.

>>53935539
Im the same dude. Thats why I found it funny.

>>53935556
I have often thought that there should be monthly quotas on how many times people are allowed to drive or be driven to anything other than their jobs. People should be forced to get what they need from the grocery store in 2 monthly trips, max.

>>53934813
completely agree, I hate google and have tried to drop it for everything. But Google Maps can't be beat. There's no real alternative or competitor

also I love Brave as a browser and search, but it's based on Chromium which is a shame. They will constantly need to find ways to work around Google's cuckoldry

>>53935345
when they begin to sell you filters because every other webpage is chatgpt gibberish designed to fool the algorithm

>>53935733
The one main thing I can't drop is Voice because I can't afford my own phone service. I have had Voice as my phone for 13 years. It has especially become important to me since essentially everyone moved mostly to SMS for regular communication.

>>53929406
Point of sale?

I will also concede that aside from the paywall issues, Google News is unbeatable. Being able to click a given "story" and seeing many sources is excellent, and they also tend to include more interesting, in depth stories more often. It would be really nice if one could set to block paywalled stories. Their local section is also far superior when one lives in rural area. MSN seems to think that we have no interest in our own town and county, but want to know about big shitties that are 2 hrs away.

>>53929406
They are an advertising company that happens to make software on the side. Ideally the internet would be monetized as a product for the people, rather than monetizing the people as a product for the advertisers.

>>53935991
The primary thing I appreciate about their model in that regard as that at least for the most part they hold your data and sell indirect access to you through it, as opposed to just outright selling your data to whomever and releasing it, as in the case of essentially "everyone else".

>>53934278
Brave is based; I like the AI summarizer

>>53936183
>I like the AI summarizer

at first I didn't think it would make much difference but it's actually pretty convenient. It can only improve too. Brave search was pretty shitty when I first started using it but it has improved a lot since then