cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46733507
Google is making its Search more centred around AI, turning it into a conversation.
Besides being a worse experience, the websites from which it sources its information are losing all traffic and recognition.
Recommend a list of alternatives:
- Kagi - Paid but better experience than Google
- Ecosia - Similar experience while supporting a good cause
- Qwant - Increasingly unique results and building a EU-first index
- DuckDuckGo - Privacy-focused search, but quality of results may vary
They are making people dependent on AI for information, when AI has proven itself capable of hallucinating credible-sounding information with a slight change in prompts. Prompts that Google can feed the AI before any user input.
The business opportunity is obvious. They want to bring “common knowledge” under their control, to manipulate for fascism and profit.
Why would they care about whether people want this?