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Google does not have a monopoly on search

It is not killing the open web. It is killing that "gather eyeballs and show them ads" web

Google, evil in so many ways, is doing us all a favour

(I do not often praise those dastardly people)

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Google before : Don't be evil.
Google now : Be as evil as possible.

@Tutanota Started with the slogan "Don't be evil"... Now look at them...

@Tutanota I never used Google for searching stuff… will there be any problems with other web search platforms?

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This saves the open web

@Tutanota Stop using Google.

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Google does not hold a monopoly on Search. (I have had all Google's URLS uBlocked for years.)
But as long as people *believe* it is and go there without a 2nd thought, they are handing it their lives & livelihoods.

@Tutanota Google Sucks. Big Tech Sucks.

@Tutanota this is ENSHITIFICATION!

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Gosh, I remember the "I'm feeling lucky" bit.
And how Google was so much better than Magellan, LookSmart, AltaVista, Yahoo etc.
I used to use Dogpile, which submitted your search query to multiple engines, then you could chase down the most promising.
Now Google is a pile of dog doo.

#AI #AISearch #Google

@Tutanota To give Google the "killed the internet" title is shifting responsibility away from the biggest blow against the internet, and the company behind the destruction of the net. Google isn't killing the net with their AI search. The net was already dead.

This is something you notice exceptionally well when you shut the door on Meta and their services.

I cannot find opening hours for several things, I miss all sorta event information, I am locked out of most any community information.

Google isn't killing the internet.

Meta already did

Or rather, we did.

We are letting tech giants simplify us away from the "horrible complexity of the internet".

What Google is doing is giving a final blow to the little left that made us feel that we could call it "internet".

We can only hope that this will be a wakeup, that we can look back and think "Google was the final straw that broke the trust, and we finally took the internet back"

With a lot of help from age verification laws...

@Tutanota very insightful article, mind you there are people who might choose to ignore the dangers you are highlighting in the article, either way thanks I'm gonna "duck and go" if you catch my drift.

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Why don't web sites start banning the Google crawler? What's the point of being "listed" in Google if they stop sending clicks your way?

@Tutanota I read and bear a nanosecond of good news. friend asks, "Any thoughts on gmail? Yahoo is trying to get me to use it. I'm sick of all of them."

I responded appropriately and was glad she asked. One down out of millions.

@Tutanota Just keep calm and carry on migrating 😊 But jokes aside, yes it's a problem among non-technical people. But it's on us to help them to cut their dependency to companies like google.

@Tutanota the problem is that we need more people that start to leave these giants and go for alternative, unless they see a vertical drop in their graphs, everything is fine. I'm trying to switch my close friends/relatives to alternatives, but i'm a drop in the ocean. And now more than ever we need to show them numbers going down vertically. Not only the search engine, because remember the next big thing is #Android and their kill switch on sideloading. Google is killing everything open