Why would something like Google search possibly be irrelevant?

well…

a lot of these search engines use search engine Optimization, seo to rank sites. It’s also not secret that they choose what shows up and what does not.

Things like that have been a thing for years, and since there wasn’t a good alternative search engines remained relevant as we users tolerated their direction.

Now you have Lemmy, Mastodon, Sharkey, Firefish (if it’s still a thing) connected to the Fediverse. On the Fediverse there is no such thing as looking up a website, but rather you look up actual specific content and get real results handed back to you. A lot of these Federated services are split and one person pays for hosting a smaller server, and the next another, slowly building up the bigger federated Fediverse.

On Lemmy you can just type in Windows 11, and no website to click on to, no bs, you get to hear about what’s happening with WIndows 11 from different voices. Is the *Windows cool, a tragedy, is there that one guy that *disfavors it, or is in favor of WIndows 11?

It’s all there and you as a user gets to decide for yourself if you like all the results you see, or some, or none of them and then move on with your day as it should be.

Thoughts? Opinions? Statements? Judge rulings?

    • ramirezmike@programming.devEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      I was driving my brother in law and he was trying to tell me some news he heard but couldn’t get the specifics so he spent ten minutes searching tiktok for it. I couldn’t believe it

    • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      I’ve heard that’s true for restaurants and stuff like that, such seemed pretty baffling to me considering Google Maps (and others) exists.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I mean there are cool channels that showcase the food instead of ratings. You can’t fake the restaurant AND their food so quickly
        Example (Also available on YT): https://www.tiktok.com/@japaneat
        The only thing it would need to be a true superpower is to limit an area and then show all restaurants displaying their food.
        BUT: This will quickly by gamed as well as nothijg would stop the owner of just creating instagramable dishes that taste just meh but paying the creator to say otherwise.