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mdbl

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4. Same here. It's been over for me for years now

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Tue May 19, 2026, 03:31 PM

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Google Search as you know it is over [View all] highplainsdem Yesterday OP

Everything you said, plus ai heats up our planet and uses up our water questionseverything Yesterday #1

Crap... Bayard Yesterday #2

I've been using Startpage for a couple years. Make7 Yesterday #8

Well I've been looking for ways to ditch Google for a long time. 1WorldHope Yesterday #10

Google, as we knew it, was over and changed quite a while ago, before AI. RockRaven Yesterday #3

Same here. It's been over for me for years now mdbl Yesterday #4

Brave and DuckDuckGo are much more secure than Google. summer_in_TX Yesterday #5

Will Bunch: Soon there'll be no new information to train AI on anything that happened after 2026 highplainsdem Yesterday #6

The usual acronym ETTD should be edited slightlv Yesterday #7

Remember the "World Wide Web"? I think back to the 1990s as the days of the Wild West FakeNoose 10 hrs ago #19

I've gotten in the habit of using the verb 'google' instead of 'search'. I'm trying to break out of that. Since I'm not eppur_se_muova Yesterday #9

Fuck all AI until/unless that shit is HEAVILY regulated...something that sure as hell isn't happening under fascism. Karasu Yesterday #11

There are many things a Google search will not find. BidenRocks Yesterday #12

Google anything ... any search term ... then type "-AI" after the term FakeNoose 22 hrs ago #13

I do that (when I remember) but you still get AI content too. BlueSpot 22 hrs ago #14

+1 dalton99a 20 hrs ago #16

So basically the era of links is over Diraven 20 hrs ago #15

It was fun while it lasted. hunter 19 hrs ago #17

Cory Doctrow made a word for this:"enshitification". nt Shipwack 17 hrs ago #18

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