IDK, I do think it’s crazy to say you’re surprised people use Edge. As you said, it’s the default on Windows, so a very large number of Windows users will be using it because they haven’t bothered to change the default.
I guess I could see it as hyperbole, but not as an actual, serious belief.
I mean, it doesn’t really matter how correct the general sentiment is if the article still gets a key detail or two wrong. The incorrect details still need a retraction, and if they’re the main reasoning for the general conclusion… well, it’s much more attractive to have an article with actual reasons than, “it feels like Google search sucks.”.
I’m not sure what your comment has to do with mine because I wasn’t discussing anything in the article, simply replying to someone else’s comment.
To be clear I understand that the article was incorrect, and I had my suspicions when I first saw it too (which I posted in another comment).
My comment is in reference to Google Search’s general degradation of user experience and quality of search results over the many years. Sponsored results that are hard for the average people to notice are sponsored, and they take up half the screen. SEO spam, quora spam, specific searches returning general results, etc. There is still a wealth of organic and original content out there. I just never find it through search.
As opposed to what? I’ve tried to switch to DDG so many times, but its lack of explicit phrase searching makes it practically useless. I just end up using g! all the time until I finally just give up and switch back.
Yeah… if I search for Terraform stuff on the Big G, I get shit-tons of LLM-generated crapsites. If I search for the TF stuff I’m working on at DDG, I don’t get anything.
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Google has been shit for a while now, innit?
Im amazed people still use google for a search engine.
Default search engine on Chrome, iOS and Android.
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I know, but I use vpn when searching and puzzles every search made me leave years ago. Im aware most use google.
I mean, edge is the default browser and it’s not like you’d be crazy to say “l’m surprised people use edge as their internet browser”
But yeah, it’s not surprising people use Google, it is surprising people don’t know alternatives are not horrible anymore and Google generally is.
IDK, I do think it’s crazy to say you’re surprised people use Edge. As you said, it’s the default on Windows, so a very large number of Windows users will be using it because they haven’t bothered to change the default.
I guess I could see it as hyperbole, but not as an actual, serious belief.
Most people don’t understand how bad Google has become. It’s like not noticing how tall you’ve grown until your grandmother points it out.
I mean, it doesn’t really matter how correct the general sentiment is if the article still gets a key detail or two wrong. The incorrect details still need a retraction, and if they’re the main reasoning for the general conclusion… well, it’s much more attractive to have an article with actual reasons than, “it feels like Google search sucks.”.
I’m not sure what your comment has to do with mine because I wasn’t discussing anything in the article, simply replying to someone else’s comment.
To be clear I understand that the article was incorrect, and I had my suspicions when I first saw it too (which I posted in another comment).
My comment is in reference to Google Search’s general degradation of user experience and quality of search results over the many years. Sponsored results that are hard for the average people to notice are sponsored, and they take up half the screen. SEO spam, quora spam, specific searches returning general results, etc. There is still a wealth of organic and original content out there. I just never find it through search.
As opposed to what? I’ve tried to switch to DDG so many times, but its lack of explicit phrase searching makes it practically useless. I just end up using g! all the time until I finally just give up and switch back.
Yeah… if I search for Terraform stuff on the Big G, I get shit-tons of LLM-generated crapsites. If I search for the TF stuff I’m working on at DDG, I don’t get anything.
Unless you really like spam from quora and pinterest.