Google has become essentially worthless for searching for anything. Unless you want to buy some worthless shit off amazon of course.
Earlier, I was editing a paper, and I did a quick google search to just fact check, and the first page was all AI crap that had errors in it, followed by pages of paid listing, then page after page of crap that when I clicked on it required me to sign up or create an account.
Fuck, I just wanted to check and see if I am correctly remembering something that any chem undergrad would know.
It really would have been quicker to just pull a 20 yr old chemistry text off the shelf and look it up the old fashioned way, which is what I ended up doing anyway.
Wikipedia is now my homepage.
Fuck you google. fuck you in your POS ass. (Remember when their corporate moto was "Don't be evil")? What a fucking joke.
Yeah, I know DDG for the win, but our IT guy forbids anything but google shite on work computers. I did have DDG on my work laptop for awhile, but they took it off and took away administrator privileges, so I can't install anything without their permission.
Also, I went on a google killing spree on my android. Deleted all google apps, and disabled the ones I couldn't delete. Now google play sends me alerts every couple of hours that various apps, (including the fucking clock lol) won't work correctly if google play is disabled. Fuck you google, the clock on my phone works just fucking fine without you. So does wi-fi, so does DDG, so does texting.
I really hope some terrorists melt down google's servers. After the dust clears and civilization is rebuilt, we will all be better off for it.