A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice's case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits
  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    10 months ago

    It also dismisses DuckDuckGo’s approach to privacy as one of its failures, claiming that the approach leads to “significant trade-offs to search quality,

    This is a bold claim to make considering Google’s search is almost entirely useless now. They’ve let AI-generated SEO trash completely destroy their search results and have turned a blind eye to it.

    • electricprism
      121·
      10 months ago

      Thanks chat for restoring my faith in you.

      Yes Google search is more useless now than when it was before spiders when it was simply a directory index.

      Pot (Google) & Kettle (DDG), they’re both shitty controlled opposition under the new Cable TV Death Grip. The Internet is enshitified, I guess we fucked up killing cable, the parasites simply followed along and made this shit too.

      • wathek@discuss.online
        2·
        10 months ago

        I hope so, let’s get some semi-healthy competition going, maybe they’ll even have to provide a better user experience instead of just seeing who can milk their users the most optimally. Probably not but one can dream.