It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect… It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It’s no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it’s early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

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    1 year ago

    Paying for a search engine is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard lol. DDG is just better and I question what you use to guage better results, especially since you already spent money and are already susceptible to bias.

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      If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. Don’t knock it til you try it.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a very black and white view of the world and is not true.

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            1 year ago

            I have a super secret search engine that reads your mind for only $20/mo. You wanna try?

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              1 year ago

              Sure, if there’s a free trial (Kagi has one). Though if it’s from you, probably not 😉

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                1 year ago

                Feel free to scammed by an account based search engine that won’t even work in private browsing