schizoidman@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoGoogle confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees - The Vergewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10 cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgwolnyinternet@szmer.infotechnology@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squarenarp@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoCopilot/Bing Search might put a big dent in that in the future. People will just ask an AI instead of “googling”.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoYeah, but that one is replaceable if people want too.
minus-squareKidplayer_666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoEverything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoYouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company. Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.
minus-squareKidplayer_666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoSo is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s
minus-squarebramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoThe only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.
minus-squareKidplayer_666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI don’t leave in an English speaking country and sometimes the results are not ideal tbh
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoNo, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively. What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn’t count)
minus-squareGabu@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoTwitch, but that comes with its own problems.
And search
Copilot/Bing Search might put a big dent in that in the future. People will just ask an AI instead of “googling”.
Yeah, but that one is replaceable if people want too.
Everything is replaceable if people want to. The problem is the inertia it takes to substitute it
YouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company.
Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.
So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s
The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.
I don’t leave in an English speaking country and sometimes the results are not ideal tbh
No, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively.
What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn’t count)
Twitch, but that comes with its own problems.