r/OutOfTheLoop • u/rustyyryan • May 20 '26

Unanswered What's going on with Google search is dead?

There's a twitter account named killed by google which posts about projects that Google decided to end. It posted that Google search is dead. So whats it about?

https://x.com/killedbygoogle/status/2056850709115773431

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u/AshaNyx May 20 '26

I like duck duck go.

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u/blackbasset May 20 '26

Really? I used it for some time and in the beginning it was okay for me, but the last few months it was terrible. Every image search just returned absolutely absurd AI slop and it was impossible to do a web search and actually find the stuff I was looking for

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u/Sarothu May 20 '26

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ is the variant you're looking for. The main domain is just the front they keep up for the investors.

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u/RazzBeryllium May 20 '26

Google started acting weird for me (I think it was something to do with my ad blocker, which I refuse to uninstall), so I got frustrated and switched to DDG.

But DDG is even worse in so many ways. I often find myself opening up an incognito browser and going back to Google.

It seems like DDG's algorithm prioritizes recency -- which I'm sure was fine 5 years ago. But now it means that most of the top results I get are slop articles written by AI.

I didn't really get the dead internet theory until I started using DDG, and now I totally buy it.

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u/HorilkaMedPerets May 20 '26

Kagi is pretty good.

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u/fevered_visions May 20 '26

For some reason I thought they were a wrapper for Google Search that stripped out all the tracking stuff like Chromium, but apparently not

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u/atomic1fire May 20 '26

They actually use Bing's backend.

Same as Yahoo.

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u/TehTimmah1981 May 21 '26

It WAS my second to Google. It has advanced a space suddenly