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Google's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage (searchenginewatch.com)
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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Still shocked to see people in 202X pull up a web search and it's Google 🀒

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The average person doesn't even know there's other options. So, it's working as designed.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess that's the benefit of a virtual monopoly.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was more an AskJeevs guy myself

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Better alternative?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Literally any one

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

I just tried this prompt on Gemini and it worked really well:

Give me search results like a 1999 Google search on the content of the modern web for: β€œyour search terms here”

Not sure how long that will continue to appear un-biased and un-polluted by SEO, but it did pretty good for the things I tried.

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why? There hasn't been a search engine worth the bandwidth it eats since infoseek got shut down.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Uh, Kagi, Mojeek, DDG, Ecosia, searx (self-hosted or non). That's just off the top of my head

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For general searches they all worked pretty until just recently for some reason

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

If by "just recently" you mean "around 2010", then sure.