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[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Getting 4 sponsored links and an AI overview before I get to the search results.

It's basically all the shit Yahoo did to lose their search dominance.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun Fact: the current head of Google's search is the same guy that was in charge of Yahoo's search right before they folded their own search and just started licensing Bing.

[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

That is hilarious. That explains a lot.

[–] Sakychu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't see how a checkmark is supposed to fixes these Problems. Aren't the sponsored links not already marked as such?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can disable the AI stuff and other nonsense if you do a "web" search, it's in the list with images, videos etc. Theres also a thing you can add to a search url to do it - &udm=14.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My solution.

Their search results have been shit for about 10 years.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So who do you use? Because I haven't found a properly functional search engine in years.