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If google were just a search engine still, there wouldn’t be a problem. But they are much much more now. Plus they suck at doing the thing they were supposed to do, i.e. searching.
I dunno. Milk can age into cheese if done right.
I’d say it aged like a badly discarded biohazard container.
The 2007 acquisition of Doubleclick is the watershed moment that converted Google from a competitor into a monopoly of the Internet ecosystem.
I’m sure old Google didn’t require a subscription.
Aren’t they super into chatbots tho?
They have em and you can use em, but you can also turn them off AFAIK.
The bots they have are pretty good too. Lots of open source heavy hitters with ZDR (zero data retention policies)
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llms-privacy.html
PS: no affiliation with kagi at all. I just like their product, even though their search engine conflates me with someone else.
When it was cool to google…
Eh, their home page is still very clean, as described in the picture.
