Google, I Dump Your Ass

17 points by abnercoimbre 3 hours ago | 11 comments

Do we really need many of more of these posts? Just leave already. It’s not a special thing, leaving a platform with billions of people. Robots.txt has been around since… forever?

graypegg 10 minutes ago | |

A while ago, a band I really like (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard) made a choice to remove their music from Spotify. I'm all for it! I'm not a huge fan of Spotify or something, but the legions of fans then making a huge deal out of them cancelling their Spotify subscription "in solidarity" was by far the biggest impact that choice had... Spotify was almost certainly not affected at all.

Bytes on the internet are mostly free, so I can't say we "have enough"... there's always space for more, but saying "I am in the in-group!" has diminishing returns past the first hundred posts haha

jwitchel 1 hour ago |

Kagi is awesome. And frankly, it's the end game. Just pay for your search full stop. The original 1990's assertion that "information wants to be free" and all that related nonsense never really passed the laugh test.

Being able to search the web is critical to day-to-day life. Why wouldn't you pay for it? I pay for all sorts of dumb stuff I barely use. I use Kagi every day.

Because I am paying for their service, I know that they are trying to provide me the best service they can - we are aligned. I want to pay for good service, they want to get me good service.

I pay for Kagi not because of political value system. I pay for it because it's just better than Google. I encourage you to try it. It's night and day.

singleshot_ 1 hour ago | |

> The original 1990's assertion that "information wants to be free" and all that related nonsense never really passed the laugh test.

It didn’t even pass the end of the paragraph where the quote originated.

kgwxd 26 minutes ago | |

I assume to use the paid search, you need to be authenticated to search? Privacy NIGHTMARE. Just because they're taking your money, doesn't mean they care about you.

woofcat 1 hour ago | |

Any alternatives you'd recommend outside of the USA?

footy 1 hour ago | | |

I use kagi outside the USA.

pipeline_peak 21 minutes ago |

This reads like an ant screaming at someone’s foot before they get stomped.

fullstacking 2 hours ago |

I've been thinking a lot about what it would take to build a simple search engine again. I think the time for a decentralized search engine that is human vetted is now. In a way that's what sites like reddit/HN ect have become, but I think we need a real search engine not just a social network. Looking to alternatives does not leaving me feeling great right now, DuckDuckGo is just bing IE microsoft and that's not really a better trade.

ddgmorgan 47 minutes ago | |

Morgan from DuckDuckGo here! Some of our web links come from Bing; that's never been a secret. But at this point, we're significantly more than that. For the past two years, we've been building our own web index (see https://insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales-why-duckd...). Beyond web links, many of our search results, such as local results, maps, knowledge panels, answers, sports, weather, and AI features, don't come from Bing at all. When you combine all of this with our commitment to privacy and a completely different design and user experience, it's clear that DuckDuckGo is a fundamentally different search engine.

rolph 1 minute ago | | |

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abnercoimbre 2 hours ago | |

Thoughts on Kagi? It's a paid product which slows down network effects. However, I'd argue search being "free" is part of the problem.