AI, ads, and useless google add-ons can all literally be switched off - that’s basically the value add of any given Google alternative. What’s harder to beat is SEO.
I think the only way to beat SEO is with a dedicated “anti-SEO team” that manually flags shitty/generated websites to be downranked. It would take a lot of labor and it would be impossible to do in a purely neutral way, but something human-run would be preferable to any automated system which everyone would quickly figure out how to “game”. A vote system to get mass reports on good/bad results might help but you would still need the upper tier of people making sure that brigades and bots aren’t constantly fucking things up.
idk. Google used to automatically highlight pages that you landed on then stopped your search, which indicates you got a good result. They basically scrapped that, though, since their advertising arm wanted people to spend more time searching, running more queries, to get more ad impressions. Google literally sabotaged their own search algorithm to increase “engagement”.
AI, ads, and useless google add-ons can all literally be switched off - that’s basically the value add of any given Google alternative. What’s harder to beat is SEO.
I think the only way to beat SEO is with a dedicated “anti-SEO team” that manually flags shitty/generated websites to be downranked. It would take a lot of labor and it would be impossible to do in a purely neutral way, but something human-run would be preferable to any automated system which everyone would quickly figure out how to “game”. A vote system to get mass reports on good/bad results might help but you would still need the upper tier of people making sure that brigades and bots aren’t constantly fucking things up.
idk. Google used to automatically highlight pages that you landed on then stopped your search, which indicates you got a good result. They basically scrapped that, though, since their advertising arm wanted people to spend more time searching, running more queries, to get more ad impressions. Google literally sabotaged their own search algorithm to increase “engagement”.