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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Up until the API debacle, that was my solution too. Now even that doesn't work. It's so bizarrely hard to look something up on the internet now.

[–] Artranjunk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use chat GPT 4 for a lot of things instead of Google now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same here, for the reason that I don't have to scroll through crap pages that only exist to show ads.