I warned everybody.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

#google #AdBlocking

Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

^{Ars Technica}

Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up

#google

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overview-search-issues/

Wonder how long this plan will stick.

"Google is scaling back its AI search plans after the summary feature told people to eat glue"

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-scales-back-ai-in-search-feature-overviews-eat-glue-2024-5

#AI #Google #eatglue

Google is scaling back its AI in Search so you wont' see glue on pizza

The changes come after examples of AI Overviews going haywire — and faked pictures — flooded the internet.

^{Shubhangi Goel (Insider)}

"[T]he US government is...trying to break up #Google, the largest #tech #company in the history of the world, and there has been virtually no press about it.

" #Biden's comms team isn't bragging about the administration's accomplishments, because the senior partners in this coalition oppose those accomplishments. They don't want to win an #election based on the promise to prosecute an anti-corporate revolution, because they are counter-revolutionaries."

New blog post: Takeaways from the Google Cloud Warehouse API documentation leak.

A leak of all of Google’s 14,000 ranking recently hit the news. I go over some of the ones that people are eyeing more closely, and end with a cold shower to cool down some of the misleading hype from the SEO industry.

Excerpt:

We only have API documentation. We don’t know about any hidden knowledge, whether any of these factors have a ranking weight of “zero”, whether any of these conditionally apply, which are only used internally for testing, etc. As I said in prior disclaimers, some factors might exist for testing purposes. Serious conclusions drawn from this leak are, to some degree, speculation.

#Google #SearchEngines

Takeaways from the Google Cloud Warehouse API documentation leak

My thoughts on Google's Cloud Warehouse API doc leak, what we can learn from its ranking factors, and why the following SEO hype is overblown.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

Massive leak at #Google confirms what we have all known for years, just how much is tracked, stored, and monetized.

Even clearer now how Chrome tracks and reports EVERYTHING you do. For heavens' sake delete it now and move to Firefox

Also they've outright lied for years about their data collection and search practices.

Looks like 'Don't be evil' wasn't enough. ;)

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

Just, get off Google products already!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation

Thousands of pages of leaked internal documentation from Google reveal signals the company may collect for its search algorithm.

^{Mia Sato (The Verge)}

#Google is having a moment with its search engine algorithm leaks, right as it's involved in what might be the world's *biggest* #antitrust case:

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167407/google-search-algorithm-documents-leak-confirmation

Hopefully this does something about its being heavily underreported. Google's kept The Algorithm™ under wraps for YEARS, because "otherwise the spammers would win" (h/t @pluralistic ):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/

"Well, they kept it a secret, and the spammers won anyway."

Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real

Until yesterday, Google had refused to comment on the authenticity of the trove of documents, some of which may indicate what the company uses to rank sites in search.

^{Mia Sato (The Verge)}

Google Search ranking and API data leak, reveals over 14,000 ranking features and so much more https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-data-leak-37462.html via @randfish @ipullrank

#google

It's crazy how different I feel about #Google versus 13 years ago. They were the innovative #opensource-embracing counter to the corporate behemoth of #Microsoft. It's sad how much Google has embodied many of the very things it boldly rallied against. And now Microsoft can pitch its own web services as simply being not-Google.

(I could be wrong, but I remember "Bing" being an informal, recursive acronym for Bing Is Not Google.)

#Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill #AI search for good

via @arstechnica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good

The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google's AI Overview.

^{Ars Technica}

Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.

#drawing #comic #krita #web #surveillance #google #SocialMedia #enshittification #privacy #adblocker #ads

KI generiert kein Wissen, sondern setzt gemäss voreingestellten Parametern und Algorithmen Wörter in eine in erster Linie grammatikalisch richtige Abfolge - in neuer Zusammensetzung.

Was darüber hinausgeht, bleibt am verfügbaren Datensatz an Informationen hängen. Sind die Informationen (aka der Datensatz) Müll, dann gibt KI grammatikalisch korrekten Müll in anderer Zusammensetzung wieder.

#AI #KI #artificialintelligence #google #fail #information #disinformation

#Google recently added a new revolutionary feature to *checks notes* "search the Web". But it's rather hidden. So Ernie Smith from Tedium developed

https://udm14.com/

a simple webpage that adds an extra url parameter to your search to return a de-enshittified list of results –– or at least as de-enshittified as Google results can be nowadays.

His blog post about this: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

and the code in GitHub: https://github.com/readtedium/udm14

#internet #ai

GitHub - readtedium/udm14: Code for udm14.com, a site with an easily-accessible AI-free Google search. This has a CC0 license so consider the code public domain.

Code for udm14.com, a site with an easily-accessible AI-free Google search. This has a CC0 license so consider the code public domain. - readtedium/udm14

^GitHub

When you use the share button on YouTube, Google will tack on a URL argument “si=…”. I used to delete these before sharing so that Google can’t track and aggregate clicks.

But now I have resorted to more aggressive messaging to Google and encourage others to do so also. Change the “si=“ string to something like “si=stoptrackingusgoogle”.

Example:

https://youtu.be/tso5pSzBRDo?si=stoptrackingusgoogle

#google #youtube #privacy

The Location of Deep Space Nine and Sci-fi Stars

POSTER: Back the Kickstarter if you want a poster of this: http://kck.st/3SFNiIiThis is a scientifically accurate depiction of where a select few sci-fi star...

^YouTube

Thank you to whoever made https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html 🙌

#Google #AI #Memes

if you want to export some of your data from Google before deleting, here's the page to do that

https://takeout.google.com/

#degoogle #google #privacy

and in case you were moving from #google keep to #obsidian, here's the simple way to do that without using your google API key

https://help.obsidian.md/import/google-keep

#Google Is Paying #Reddit $60 Million for #Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat #Glue

source: https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

The complete destruction of Google Search via forced #AI adoption and the carnage it is wreaking on the internet is deeply depressing, but there are bright spots. For example, as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for. And that is to confidently serve its customers ideas like, to make cheese stick on a pizza, “you can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to #pizza sauce, which comes directly from the mind of a Reddit user who calls themselves “Fucksmith” and posted about putting glue on pizza 11 years ago.

#news #technology #fail #omg #wtf #troll

Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

Seems legit

#meme #shitpost #tech #google #ai #chatgpt

This is the SearxNG instance I currently use:

https://search.inetol.net

Low latency, has the options I need, and I appreciate the defaults of leaving the query in the URL and in the page title.

SearXNG is a meta-search engine. You can use it as a front-end to one or multiple search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing, Qwant, ..., it only depends on what your instance makes available.

Find more instances on https://searx.space

#SearXNG #DuckDuckGo #google #bing #qwant #search

SearXNG instances

Online and offline instances

^searx.space

In the latest episode of his podcast #SearchEngine @pjvogt talks about how #Google might soon destroy many #news websites:
https://megaphone.link/CAD6984549408

Guest @caseynewton makes the case, that the #Fediverse might save the "good internet".

But both are just scratching the surface and PJ later asks the listeners, if he should make an episode about the Fediverse. I would really like to hear that. But with whom as guest/expert? @mike?@tchambers? @reckless1280?
Ideas?

#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Threads

How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2) by Search Engine

^Megaphone.fm

Since #DuckDuckGo and #Ecosia aren't working as #Bing is down, instead of going to #Google, perhaps check out https://searchengine.party/ instead and find an alternate #search engine.

To set a search engine as your default, visit the site and right click the URL bar, and select add. Then change your default in settings.

(Firefox will add it as an option in the default engines in settings. Chrome will open settings with it as an "inactive shortcut" which you can "make default" in the entry's menu.)

Do you think AI/LLM hype is a dangerous bubble that needs to be popped as soon as possible?

If so, you might want to follow the DAIR institute's PeerTube account, it has an entertaining regular show all about the latest AI/LLM shenanigans:

➡️ @dair

If the videos haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://peertube.dair-institute.org/a/dair/videos

DAIR was founded by @timnitGebru, an ethical AI researcher fired by Google for being too ethical.

#FeaturedPeerTube #AI #LLM #Google #PeerTube

DAIR Institute

PeerTube, an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.

^DAIR-Tube

Google’s AI sure has strong feelings about someone.

#google #ai

#Google's call-scanning #AI could dial up #censorship by default, #privacy experts warn
This is essentially #clientsidescanning
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/

Right now #DoNoEvil (kidding) Google is going after #scam calls, but what about in repressive countries or our own?

What happens when they come to find the #dissidents, #BLM, #abortion rights leaders?

#SlipperySlope #surveillance

Ennustus puolentoista vuoden takaa on käymässä toteen: Google tuhoaa nykymuotoisen internetin

Google on vääntänyt tällä viikolla vipua asetuksissaan ja nyt kaikki hakutulokset Yhdysvalloissa ovat tekoälyn laatimia vastauksia. Ja sen vaikutus koko nettiin tulee olemaan katastrofaalinen.

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2024/05/16/google-tekoaly-tuhoaa-internetin

#google #tekoäly #hakukone #uutiset #mielipide #teknologia #tekniikka

Kommentti: Ennustus toteutui, Googlen tekemä muutos tuhoaa internetin

Google on ottanut tekoälyn käyttöön hakutuloksissaan täysillä - ja sen arvioidaan tuhoavan koko nykymuotoisen internetin.

^{Petteri Pyyny (AfterDawn)}

#ProjectAstra: the future of #AI at #Google is fast, multi-modal assistants like #GoogleGemini Live - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156296/google-ai-gemini-astra-assistant-live-io

Project Astra: the future of AI at Google is fast, multi-modal assistants like Gemini Live

With the help of Gemini Pro and other language models, Google believes it can finally build truly universal digital assistants that succeed where Alexa and Siri never could.

^{David Pierce (The Verge)}

Want the old #Google Search back? Add "udm=14" to the URL.

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

^{Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.}

Following their successful pivot from waste management to Search Results, #Google announces their new development team.

“That's a lovely query you got there…
be a shame if something…happened to it”

“Web based results will be encased in concrete for extra security, and rest soundly on bottom of the page - with da fishes”

- Sundar ‘Sonny’ Pichai - CEO

#enshitification
#news
@lisamelton

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

Search is dead — long live curation

https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/search-is-dead-long-live-curation/

#Search #Google #AI #LLMs

Google’s Gemini AI is coming to #Gmail, whether you like it or not. 🤖

Will you use this new feature - at the price of giving #Google all your data?
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai-email

Your phone will soon have an opinion on you, too.
#Google #AI

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/google-will-use-gemini-to-detect-scams-during-calls/

Google I/O wrapped up, and I have a LOT of thoughts. Shot a quick reaction video on the keynote here https://somegadgetguy.com/b/455
Some really interesting AI tools are coming, but will Gemini search continue hurting website traffic?

#tech #technology #business #news #technews #bbtg #geek #google #googleio #search #AI

Google I/O 2024 Reactions: Will AI Search Destroy YOUR Website Traffic?

Google I/O is here! I just finished the keynote, and I have a LOT of thoughts. We’re seeing some fun demonstrations of Gemini services. New ways to help people sort and organize their informa…

^{SomeGadgetGuy}