The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

  • weew@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Strange how Google became the default search engine back in the day because they were so good at filtering out the dumb websites that just spam search terms all over the page.

    They’ve regressed and become Yahoo

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      5 months ago

      Except there isn’t much of a Google stealing their thunder. Bing isn’t better. DDG isn’t better.

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          5 months ago

          I’m almost convinced that Kagi comments on Lemmy are spam. Please prove me wrong:

          Has anyone here tried Kagi because of a recommendation from here and, well, actually found it better than the rest?

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            5 months ago

            I use it, but to be honest I did not do a comprehensive comparison. I like it mostly for the fine grained website control. For work and some personal stuff I often look for code and can push websites like GitHub to appear more often. Or I can block Pinterest in my search results. I tried to do this in SearXNG, but this was too much of a hassle so in a way I pay kagi for convenience. I recently got a new job and will evaluate in the coming months if it is still worth the money, but right now I am satisfied. Nobody else I know would pay for a search engine, so I can understand the stance, but I am really fed up with all the advertising and enshitification so I thought why not give it a try. And yes, because it was recommended here.