"I used to be able to Google like you, but then they changed what Google was and now what I can do doesn't work, and what you have to do seems weird and scary to me."

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 40 points 3 months ago

I used to google onions, because it was the style at the time

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 18 points 3 months ago

I used to be able to Google like you

…but then I got enshittification in the knee

[–] mrbaby@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

And it'll happen to you!

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For reals. I never bookmarked anything as I'd just regoogle what I was looking for but as of six months ago I can't find shit. It's like it never existed and all I get is spam websites that's are skinned to looks genuine. I'm honestly going back to Askjeeves.com.....

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If it is any consolation, a good chunk of those bookmarks would lead to deadlinks or domains bought by someone else.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wayback machine and bookmark, name a more iconic duo...

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

Until you stumble upon "we don't have that page archived", then the pain is real

[–] OpenStars 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Try DuckDuckGo - I believe its selling point is that it is not as bad as Bing.:-)

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's Bing without tracking. And the things like quotation marks still work. However, baseline search using it has still gone to shit.

[–] OpenStars 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did it used to be better? I rarely if ever used it before Google's enshittification, but now I'm just happy to find ~~streaming services~~ whatever I need.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It did, but Bing hiked their prices so it got shitty.

[–] OpenStars -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, "it" meaning Bing then, not DDG. Although I thought Bing had always been free... shows what I "know"!:-P

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

DDG uses Bing on the backend, and they have to pay for each query, so Bing affects DDG

[–] OpenStars 1 points 3 months ago

Oh damn, thanks for the explanation! 😀

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

No, I've been using it for about 4 years or more, I think, and the search is stably kind of okay. Some time ago Google used to work when ddg failed, but…

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah. It shows me first result article that copypasta from other place which is straight out wrong. Went to ddg and it start to show result that makes sense. It's no wonder people look up reddit thread for info. It also doesn't show too much oldschool forum, or at least it's buried down 20page later. It's unusable.