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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 02:35:14 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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   • Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

   @xgranade DDG is so completely useless now. Google works for me... for now

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 02:35:22 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     This might be what finally pushes me hold my nose and try out Kagi. I hate their AI marketing so very much, and I hate giving money to an AI company, but they're *all* AI companies now, and I don't know how to *not* give money to AI companies without moving to a remote harbor island, renouncing my internet connection, sealing all my computers in concrete, and illegally dumping them offshore.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 02:35:27 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

     Search engines have gotten so much worse. I keep trying to search for one simple thing in both DDG and, as a fallback, on Google, but I keep getting the exact opposite of what I'm searching for.

     I've been doing this almost as long as the public internet has existed, I know I don't suck at finding things. It's just that search engines have gotten really, really bad.