On: Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

[stephen_cagle]

I (and a non trivial number of people I knok) have switched to Kagi for search just to avoid having to deal with the bullshit that is the above the fold google search results.

Course, they win anyway because I also pay for youtube premium to avoid seeing ads..

Feels like the world is becoming a split between people who can afford not to be the product and people who cannot.

[WarmWash → stephen_cagle]

People take the ad supported internet for granted, and genuinely believe that if we could just put companies in their place, we could have an ad-free internet that is totally free to use.

[0gs → WarmWash]

ok sounds great. let's hear about this place we have to put all the companies in to make 100% free commerce a reality for everyone.

[0gs → WarmWash]

the real issue, imo, is that we would have to get 90% of consumers to stop relying on advertising to make their purchasing decisions.

[watwut → WarmWash]

We can have that. It would be significantly less toxic too. Meta, X and similar would die.

There would be less monopolies and software industry would consist of smaller competing companies trying to please customers.

[Thev00d00 → stephen_cagle]

Kagi is great!