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Google’s AI search results are already getting ads (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks like a separate element that comes after the LLM summary which can be removed by ad blockers. That is, if you're still using Google search...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That is, if you’re still using Google search…

What's a viable alternative? Bing seems to be just as rah rah AI as Google, DDG gives me oranges if I search for apples... if there is an actually useful search engine out there that isn't actively in the process of becoming enshittified, I would absolutely love to know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure that was a metaphor for DDG giving them not what they are looking for. They probably didn't meant it literary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

searxng

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I've been pretty happy with Kagi (it's a paid search engine, though).