It’s weird that they don’t really address the biggest reason Googles algorithm is worse now. The rampant exploitation of SEO.
Bad actors abuse the system in an attempt to be the first result, regardless of relevancy. It’s harder for Google to sift the chaff out than it used to be, because they’re flooded with content claiming to be related to the search keys.
Google is getting worse everyday and yet we still depends on it everyday
It’s ingrained in many places unfortunately. Like aws and Amazon
You either die a hero or live and watch yourself turn into a villian.
Tom’s hardware, woot, and most recently donut media just to name a few. All were once the place to go, they all were bought out by bigger interest and eventually became the villian.
Donut - how? All the giga-sponsors they take lately?
They’ve been bought by an entertainment parent company, which is why the glut of sponsorships along with their content leaning towards pure entertainment instead of including educational and DIY content. Zach and Jeremiah started their own thing recently and explain in their first video.
I just saw their Big Time video! Glad those guys have the guts to do that.
It’s not even that their results suck, per se, but they straight up ignore most of my search query and focus on one or two words only. Obviously that makes your search results suck.
It is just a matter of incentives.
Remember Google is paid by advertising dollars. So the incentives are to feed you the maximum amount of ads with the minimum amount of content so that you don’t leave for something else.
Getting worse is putting it lightly.
Get the fuck off Google services if you can. Highly recommend Proton mail and drive as a replacement.
duckduckgo and yandex.
restricting your search to r*ddit to filter out blogspam.
…tell me more of these proton mail services of which you speak!
It’s like Gmail except it has a proper dark mode, an actually functional search feature, a functional and user-friendly mail filtering system, you can actually block senders, “All Mail” actually shows you all mail, and also Google isn’t reading all your emails…
But I have nothing to hide!
Why shouldN’T sundar the creep read my email and check my nudes?
Ultimately, arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
- snowden
Mullvad also put together this recently: https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/nothing-to-hide
Preach!
But what if Alphabet buys Proton!?
They went non-profit recently to specifically prevent this from happening.
I would need to see some alternates for Google Drive in that case.
Proton drive is fantastic.
I just signed up for that just to check it out and compare it, and it looks like upgrading the storage on it is more expensive than Google Drive.
If price is main concern, you still have options, but you’ll need to be a lot more specific about what you need. For example:
- direct Drive replacements - OneDrive and Amazon Drive
- just file storage - DropBox, and MEGA
- backups - NordLocker, Backblaze
- hosted and self-hosted cloud platforms - OwnCloud and NextCloud, use Backblaze B2 for storage
I’m doing the last one. I have NextCloud installed on my custom NAS (just openSUSE Leap with some drives) and am working on configuring B2 as a backup service. It’s more expensive than Drive, but it’s also more versatile (streams movies to TV, use as Linux package cache for faster upgrades, etc).
Each of these are similar in price to Google Drive, but with a different feature set. Some are cheaper.
Sorry for not being more specific about what I need, I will explain it here.
With Google Drive, it gets assigned to a drive letter on my computer which is H: here and I’m not sure if any other Drive alternatives do that or not.
Right now, I currently pay $3 USD a month for 300 GBs of Google Drive space and they appear to go up with 5TBs for $25 USD a month and $10TBs for $50 USD a month.
I’m not interested in One Drive as that is Microsoft’s Shit.
Here are options for to mount Backblaze B2 as a drive. It’s $6/TB/month, and I think they allow <1TB, so for 300GB you’d pay ~$2/month. So I think they’re pretty competitive, but I’m not familiar with Google Drive’s terms. They’re certainly in the same ballpark, if not cheaper, but it depends on your egress and Google Drive’s policies around that (how much you download from their service).
Well, for one thing, I would want to find out if there is a way to mount a remote drive service to a drive letter on a Windows machine like Google Drive so that I can have it as a backup option that would keep my stuff privacy, and not scraped by some AI LLM.
Moved to Protonmail earlier this year, just cancelled my Drive sub and am looking at switching to Mega
Why did you cancel Drive?
To be fair I’ve had no issues, just trying to degoogle slowly
can vouch for mega, been using it for 8 years now with no real issues. only sticking point is file download limits with Firefox, and thats just because im too lazy to download the desktop app
I hate services that force you to download an app when the functionality could be provided in browser. Apps have a lot more permissions to access things that wouldn’t be accessible in browser.
Is GN going to put Google on a Performance Improvement Plan like they did with Asus?
Performance Improvement Plan
LOL this is brilliant
"Google is getting worse. Now watch me talk about the situation on a youtube video. Youtube is a property owned by google. "
And exactly where do you propose they talk about it and actually have people see it?
Just took a look at them, and Rumble is for sure a hard pass. The 2 rows under “news” is all far-right extremist videos, which is great if you are aiming for the Parlor/Truth Social/Nazi and Nazi sympathizers of the internet, but I think you’ll miss most of the world going that toxic on the frontage.
Where’s that iPhone comic about society
This one?
I don’t need to watch a video to know that.
Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?
Too big to fail? Search is only one revenue stream.
That’d be advertising, and by a mile.
Through search. They make a ton with ads on the search page, sponsored links, etc.
I’m pretty sure their ad revenue from their own pages is a tiny fraction of their overall advertising revenue… They basically own the advertising market online, almost anywhere you see ads googie is getting a cut
This source seems to indicate that’s not the case:
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Google Search & Other (56.93%)
2023 Total Google Search & Other Revenue: $175.04 billion
This is revenue generated primarily from ads shown on Google’s search results pages and other search-related services. -
YouTube Ads (10.26%)
2023 Total Youtube Ads Revenue: $31.51 billion
This is revenue from ads shown on YouTube videos, including display ads, overlay ads, skippable video ads, and non-skippable video ads. -
Google Network (10.20%)
2023 Total Google Network Revenue: $31.316 billion
This is revenue from ads displayed on websites and apps that are part of Google’s ad network, beyond Google-owned properties. -
Google Other (11.26%)
2023 Total Google Other Revenue: $34.68 billion
This is revenue from Google’s other ventures and products, such as hardware (like Pixel phones and Nest devices), Play Store purchases, and other non-advertising sources. -
Google Cloud (10.75%)
2023 Total Google Cloud Revenue: $33.08 billion
This is revenue from Google’s cloud computing services, such as computing power, storage, and data analytics offered to businesses and developers.
So, 57% from search, and only 10% from ads on non-Google pages.
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Yahoo is still around in some form or another.
Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.
