Edit:
The poll stopped me in my tracks but it’s actually even worse.
It should not take this long to get to imdb
Edit2: didn’t even realize it thinks I’ll “love it” based on things I look up. I don’t think I’d like it.
Edit³: IMDb was the example I used without thinking. I’m aware that there’s a link to it in the top card. It’s the other web results that I don’t already know about that I’d like to see. I now know there’s a hidden “web” tab. There’s also https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=example` but it’s still mildly infuriating that you have to know about these things to get the basic results we expected for years.
Don’t worry, Google is actually getting sued for its various malpractices (paying browsers millions to be their default search engine, Google adsense putting the best bidder at the top of the search results, etc). It might even come to the US justice system ordering the breakup of various Google products into smaller independent companies.
I can do without the poll, but this shows just about everything I would want to know about the movie. I don’t have the “why you would like the movie” part, probably because I disabled web&app activity in my account (which you should do too if you’ve never heard of this).
If you wanted to look on imdb, why not go to imdb.org?
You used Google
What did you expect?
I’ve been working on a stylus theme for all the sites I use including duckduckgo and startpage that cuts out any and all bullshit like this
Lmk if you want a copy of it, some of the sites work on mobile too if you’re using a browser that supports extensions (Firefox)
I’m intrigued.
It’s on github.com/flashgnash/material-monokai if you want to have a look. It’s a bit rough around the edges and I’ve yet to find a way to properly source control it as stylus doesn’t seem to save it to a file anywhere
I at some point intend to split out the theme and the anti annoyance CSS into two different themes as the theme makes some pretty drastic changes
A poll in the search results, what the heck?!
They’re throwing shit at the wall I guess. Last week I got this in my YouTube feed:
Are they trying to train an AI?
I doubt it. They know I’m into audio production and this is kind of a softball question. Maybe if they start giving me more advanced ones.
I think it’s just something creators can do to boost gain extra impressions but apparently they don’t have to do it themselves anymore…
The Gemini logo next to the word “Experiment” makes me suspicious.
The quiz itself was definitely made by an AI.
no, too stupid of a question
Simple questions with known answers might be a way to weed out malicious/untrustworthy responders.
Yes, control questions, in a form, with 20 other open-ended questions which answers actually have value.
This is solely for engagement. Trivia questions have no value for training models.
Is it low pitch?
No, it’s lower volume (think amplification). Lower pitch would be from low frequency.
Great, now they’re going to start giving us exams before we’re allowed to watch a video.
We had no idea how good we had it back then, did we?
Ans we assumed it would stay good forever.
Your daily reminder that DDG also has an infinite scroll option under its settings. (Seriously, DDG’s Settings menu is so good.}
This is the impetus I needed
1 is the right number of info cards
It was too good and offered no financial incentive for them to continue with it. It’s better if users scroll endlessly looking for the information that used to simply be available instantly.
Damn the second image in your post didn’t load for me and it turned my Connect into an infinite grey screen
I messed up the link twice in weird ways. It should be fixed now.
Y’all got a denial of service 0-day for Lemmy connect 👀
An obscure one.
If anyone still wants to use google without this, you can use this url, replacing ‘example’ with your search
https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=exampleYou can add it as a search engine on your browser for fewer steps. There are add-ons that can help you with that.
Dunno what is wrong with you guys, but IMDB is on the first page for me, with no scrolling. But I don’t use my phone like a plebeian.
maybe not but you act like one… pleb
🤓🤓🤡
The polls are completely idiotic but I personally find info cards to be quite helpful.
The info cards are a cancer on the internet. They exist only so you stay on Google’s page and don’t follow a link to another site.
They exist only so you stay on Google’s page and don’t follow a link to another site.
That may be true, but I’d say in the neighborhood of 1/3 - 1/2 of my searches are answered by auto-compiled info cards or similar artifacts.
Just by way of example, my wife and I were casually researching cars lately, and one of the criteria is “does the damn thing fit in our garage??” Typing “Mazda CX-9 length” and having that specific info presented immediately is immensely preferable to clicking into edmonds.com and scrolling through an entire table of specifications.
I know this won’t be the answer people want, but to be perfectly frank if I know I want the IMDb page for a movie, I put IMDb in the query. It will put the page you want right at the top, none of that extra shit, and it will even probably predict what you’re typing before you finish.
separately, imdb itself has been enshittified enough that, most times, i don’t want the imdb page as a search result.
Anyone know good alternatives?
imdb wasn’t really the point, that’s on me, I could have also just tapped imdb on the card at the very top. It’s the other sites that I don’t know to search for that I would like to see promoted
Damn. I switched to DDG like well over a year ago and thought I was just kind of putting up with it for the sake of privacy. Turns out I didn’t know how good I have it
I had the identical reaction. Thanks OP for posting this repellent screenshot. So glad I changed my defaults.
Exactly. I’ve been using DDG for years now and when I have to use Google search for whatever reason, I am quickly reminded how crap ggl is.
I just wish DDG would finally kill their Apple Maps. Over here they’re so incredibly unusable it’s just not funny any more. I’ll take here maps before that POS.
It’s so bad that on desktop, you can’t even go and click on alternative elements on the map without explicitly changing your search terms to them. You see them, but they’re non-interactive. So the incredibly common case “I remember the name of the restaurant next to this place” (or something similar) cannot be done on DDG, on account of getting Apple money to include their maps.
It shouldn’t take this long to get to imdb
In case anyone here isn’t aware, you can directly search IMDB from DuckDuckGo by using the bang
!imdb.I can also search IMDB from IMDB.
DDG is moving into the same direction. I had to use ublock to hide the news block that appears when I’m searching for a movie/show in order to avoid spoilers.
In fact this was one of the key features lauded about DDG in its early days, the “instant result”-boxes.
Google kinda only went hard on them afterwards, probably seeing a good idea over at DDG because for the vast majority of people, they’re looking for answers and results, not specifically objects of type link-to-search-result. They don’t need a list of links, so long as the information they were after is reliably in those generated cards.
See OP wanting an IMDB link, which is directly there as Google correctly assumed that’s a very very very common use case for googling the name of a movie.
IMDB I can accept, random news websites - no.
Kagi has all these options as well but everything can be disabled in the settings.
Just switched to my own SearXNG instance. Won’t go back. Even did a PR for better Google Answers integration.
