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Google's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage
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Search Engine Watch - SEO, AI Search, PPC News & AnalysisGoogle's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepageGoogle tests an AI-focused homepage for signed-out users, adding Create images, Ask about files and Brainstorm alongside the search box.
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
Still shocked to see people in 202X pull up a web search and it’s Google 🤢
Replying to @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
The average person doesn’t even know there’s other options. So, it’s working as designed.
Replying to @greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
I guess that’s the benefit of a virtual monopoly.
Replying to @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
Unfortunately
Replying to @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
I was more an AskJeevs guy myself
Replying to @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
Why? There hasn’t been a search engine worth the bandwidth it eats since infoseek got shut down.
Replying to @DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
Uh, Kagi, Mojeek, DDG, Ecosia, searx (self-hosted or non). That’s just off the top of my head
Replying to @DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
For general searches they all worked pretty until just recently for some reason
If by “just recently” you mean “around 2010”, then sure.
When’s the last time you used Kagi? I alternate between that and DDG and dude Kagi is probably the best one I have ever tried. Better than google even.
Better alternative?
Literally any one
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: “your 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.