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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 102 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I remember interviewing at Google years ago (if you're keeping score, it was 2012/2013 just before their stock hiccupped and my onboarding was killed as I was only a 97% fit), and the guy was religious about page load times. "We cut 200 lines of code if it'll give us a millisecond of page load speed", that kind of thing.

How they've fallen.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 39 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

well they don't need to fight for new users anymore. Everyone uses it already, and children are basically indoctrinated to it: all schools have that as search engine, often they even use google classroom and drive and whatnot on the classes. if they have chromebooks, the chrome browser automatically starts after login even if you don't want to use it, and you can't unpin it from the taskbar either

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

Google sucks so bad that I switched to Bing. BING!

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

You’re a decade late on that, Bing isn’t good anymore

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Honestly nothing is good anymore. Every search engine brings up the same SEO optimized dogshit articles. I sometimes use Arc browser but that’s not really that different than asking ChatGPT.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

fuckya life BING BONG

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

DuckDuckGo for day-to-day stuff, Bing for naughty content.

[–] MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 2 points 53 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It's just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Careful saying that round these parts, you'll summon the ducks.