It's Not Just You... Google SUCKS Now.

[@HipyoTech]

Howdy hey, this vid is a bit different than normal but I really wanted to make it - so lmk if you wanna see more hipyo rambles. Edit: this vid was made before the google summit and further AI integrations into search (I'll talk about those later)

[@natalieharvey6847]

Yes!

[@etern4lbre4d53]

ello

[@RegiJatekokMagazin]

Nice how you solved the maze.

[@StoneStoneStoneStoneStoneStone]

Nice video I want to see more rants

[@jimarapidis]

yes

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

The biggest issue I have had with Google lately is more KZbin. Why is the KZbin search so bad now? It gives me like 10 videos on the subject I searched and then it's just my recommendations tab. Like huh?

[@HipyoTech]

It's all shorts tbh

[@guilavo4131]

@@HipyoTech heh, the experience is wildly different depending on what video you watch. I never watch any short so i never see any either in my recommended or in my search result. it's also why you need to be careful about what you watch, because watching one wrong video can contaminate your feed and lead down a spiral of trash content. It's also why I dislike video's as soon as I feel they might influence my recommended in a bad way. Like and dislike is a tool you can use to influence what is recommended to you. And you NEVER want to like anything you don't want to see a looooot more of.

[@yensteel]

There's quite a lot of issues. They're gatekeepers to information. Whether comments get deleted, how videos get recommended or pushed down to nonexistence, and irresponsible behavior is glorified. Many important topics are removed as well. The way dislikes are removed was incredibly questionable. It was helpful in finding trustworthy information. They can do so much without justification.

[@saintyoo]

Yeah KZbin search is completely unusable outside the first few results.

[@felix.6514]

WIth KZbin I also still hate that they removed dislikes. When you're looking into something and you can only see a like, you just can't tell if it's any good unless you put in a lot more time and effort. You used to be able to just see the massive dislike count and know to move on.

[@kevkevpurple]

The search: "How to fix loose connection in headphone jack" The article: "A headphone jack is an adapter for a TRS cable..." _scrolls_ "...TRS cables are a common method to transmit data, especially audio..." _scrolls_ *website subscription needed* _disables javascript and reloads_ "...Sometimes, 2.5mm TRS cables can have loose connections with their adapter..." _scrolls_ "...might need to replace the cable..." _scrolls_ "...can get professional help or replace the device entirely..." *what?* _scrolls_ "...A good audio cable to use is [affiliate promotion]" _closes laptop_

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

sounds about right

[@chaniibak7702]

This perfectly captures it

[@Splomf]

If you actually need help with a loose headphone jack. You've gotta replace the port or try a better quality jack. Some cheap cables will have smaller then normal jacks and they won't connect properly. If it's a problem where the cable only works at certain angles then you'll have to cut and re-solder the end on since it's a connection issue inside the cable. It'll require soldering though so it's not an option for everyone.

[@kevkevpurple]

@@Splomf yeah i gotta replace the port itself, ive delayed doing it for as long as i can though lol

[@HolyDoomfish]

So true 🥲 I started adding "reddit" or "youtube" to these kinda searches which for the most part improves the results (so far...)

[@Tennoken]

It has gotten so bad that I have to use Google, Reddit, and KZbin to cross reference each other to make sure that the information is moderately accurate.

[@HipyoTech]

I think this is the real solution, have to basically do college level fact references

[@satanpixel]

@@HipyoTechyeah but I was doing that since forever. I don’t get the point you are trying to make in the video. Do you think you should get 100% relevant and accurate information from 1 google search on a specific thing that is kinda not factual? Like with the example of keyboards you even said it’s mostly preference with 3 important criteria, what if somebody values other criteria for their keyboards. Who is now correct and whose info google should throw at you? The cat example was definitely better but still maybe the result are technically correct and you can get that plant without the beans growing. I don’t know shit about them so it was just a theoretical possibility. So my point is this was an issue and will ever be an issue because you cannot encompass everything you are trying to find out in a single google search.

[@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks]

... all three of those a very bad for references. use brave search, and a couple of other search engines, if you want to cross reference what is actually being shown. it's a known fact that all 3 of the sites you mention are removing, reranking and delisting any result they don't like, even if the information is correct and relevant.

[@silver_crone]

This is exactly what I ended up searching and cross-referencing when I was first getting into the hobby. This is kinda what I still do, when trying to find an answer.

[@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks]

You should not use any of those options. Use brave

[@Coolio_Ash]

Ai articles suck so fucking bad.

[@NLdude77_YT]

nahh

[@StillLagging]

​@@NLdude77_YTonly an ai, fed or an article writer who writes these articles.

[@potatoes5829]

to be fair, most human articles also really suck

[@BurgundyBrundley]

You’re probably referring to heavily behind ai models, try perplexity and thank me later :)

[@jaspercaelan4998]

Human written article are worse imho

[@mlyresk]

I'm a veterinarian and I regularly have issues with people coming in and quoting actual MISinformation they found online. I work in ER, so your dive into cat-safe plants is a regular issue we have. It's become a serious medical problem. Google searches will tell people to give medications to their pets that are fatal, or cause liver or kidney failure, seizures, etc. I have no idea how to fix this, but it's nearing epidemic levels.

[@muffinman4544]

People are choosing to do their own medicating for their pets as vet bills are atrociously expensive. People are strapped for cash and will cut corners where they can so they don’t end up with a fat vet bill when they needed that money to pay their bills

[@BriarBeeBenson]

I saw someone show me a screenshot of google’s ai thing tell them lilies are safe to have around cats and my heart dropped! Like NO! Lilies are very poisonous! They aren’t safe to have around any animal, especially cats, by the time they show signs of lily poisoning then it’s too late! Argh wtf! 😭

[@Window4503]

How much thought is put into your vet website (assuming you have one)? I’d think the best thing to do is provide some articles on the topic and direct people there. Encourage vets in your network to do the same. Spread awareness about finding the correct resources. As long as the top results don’t have your field as the final authority, it’s going to continue. I think enough people care about their pets to want to change the culture by discouraging misinformation, they just need to know what it is and where to go instead.

[@goober239]

Legal action will fix this.

[@bluwasabi7635]

I propose you advise cat owners to literally ask a vet directly....like call or email or something. I doubt this will clog you phone lines/inbox and may lead to increased customers (maybe).

[@stonerhino83]

Just FYI: "As of September 2021, Google no longer allows users to completely exclude search terms by using a minus sign (-) before them"

[@jmanakajosh9354]

Wtf

[@noahwilliams8996]

Wrong. That feature has been missing for nearly 20 years now.

[@Xialoh]

FYI...? and what's your source for this? I see nothing about it anywhere. I will say that you're not wrong. Just searched "dolphins", got a bunch of Miami Dolphins results so I tried excluding Miami. I get linked straight to the Miami Dolphins X account. But I'm not seeing where you get this quote that reads like a policy update.

[@beloved-child]

2021 lol yup they didn't want people searching for truth abd reality and being forced to do "-news" or actual name all the msm outlets to get real information. They saw this and were like "nope must read c0rp narrative " Now everyone is a conspiracy theorists and the establishment and a few npcs are the only ones who are "normal and not nut jobs" like the rest of us who aren't sticking our heads in the sand

[@rask8121]

Wrong. Still works. Google "donald", then google "donald -trump", compare the results :)

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

Is it finally time to stop telling people to "just google it" when they ask a question.

[@a_plastic_bag]

Just DuckDuckGo/Yandex/Mojeek etc. it!

[@CptJistuce]

I mean, the time to stop was actually probably a decade ago. But it is never too late to start.

[@Blinkerd00d]

I tell them to "ask jeeves" it

[@lussor1]

It always sounds dumb hearing someone

[@jmanakajosh9354]

​@@CptJistuce What was so bad about misinformation in 2014? 2014 was waaay better than today.

[@minementalx]

Google dropped its company motto "Don't be evil" in 2015. So there is that.

[@friedrich.1605]

It has always been evil.

[@ToyKeeper]

It seems unavoidable for corporations to become evil when they get big... and the only ways we can effectively fight back are through unions and gov't.

[@Leonhart_93]

A motto never changed anything. Actually, dropping a fake motto might have been one of the few honest things they ever did.

[@samiraperi467]

Google became Alphabet and changed the motto to "Be evil".

[@BinkyTheToaster]

Seriously? "Don't be evil" is code for "we're gonna be evil. Oooohhh yeah, so goddamn evil."

[@tparadox88]

It's not "dash" in this case, it's "minus". But also pretty much none of the operator tricks work in Google anymore because they are more concerned with guessing what you really want and what is the most profitable to show you than actually giving you what you said you wanted.

[@lvcsslacker]

making a worse product to boost "user engagement."

[@stopitgoaway]

⁠@@lvcsslacker Showing results for user pain

[@simpson6700]

seriously, i even put stuff in quotation marks and it still doesn't include those words in the search

[@censoredialogue]

@@simpson6700jesus i thought this was just me. it makes searching for niche resources for my patients nearly impossible now (i work in healthcare)

[@xythrr]

​@@simpson6700 I KNOW RIGHT?

[@AmiCestLaVie]

Absolutely hate using google now. I used to be able to find answers to very specific questions quite easily, but now it's like the algorithm assumes that if you didn't search something super common, that you meant to, and will only show you search results for that very common problem. And the AI answer it creates at the top of your results is even worse - it just talks around your problem instead of providing a solution, or worse, gives you false, misleading, or incredibly biased information. But what other search platform are we meant to use??

[@orthodox_gentleman]

Brave Search!

[@Window4503]

I’ve noticed this issue on other search engines as well. Not as bad as Google, but it’s like I still can’t find useful results that remotely mention the phrases or keywords I used. Or useless pages will rank high because of their SEO

[@Bromvolod]

I'm using Brave. They do have the AI on top though. They inplemented it recently but can be turned off. However, I love their adblock and it's why I'm using it.

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

As someone who was a die hard google user until lately I have to say Bing has come A LONG WAY, it's what Google used to be

[@EngChagas]

There's some time Google search is useless and only points me to some strange biased info and strange influencers videos not at all related to what I have searched for. So the search I use is Duck Duck Go for about a year or so now. It took a bit to get used to it but now it's my default search engine.

[@Lulleebee]

If you’re wondering why most companies drop their ethics that they seemingly upheld in the past is because there’s either almost no competition so they can get away with more, or they grew so big that the ethical concerns are seen as a money loss to them

[@yensteel]

It's all shareholder interest and short term gains now.

[@JonLake]

​@@yensteel It's been like that for a while now.

[@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments]

​@@JonLakeYes, but it's really gotten to the point they don't try to hide it anymore. They simply don't care about the customer or consumer anymore.

[@lvcsslacker]

yeah. It all comes down to money.

[@TheEquestriancolt]

They are PART of the SATANIC TAKE OVER HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

[@RocketboyX]

Now do how KZbin is more than happy to show advertisments that would be FTC violations if they were on TV, or against their own TOS.

[@censoredialogue]

wait you mean Mr Beast and the federal govt aren’t actually trying to give me free money????? lol

[@shApYT]

The real way is finding some random guy with 40k views ranting about the hyper specific topic you are researching, and that guy only makes videos on that one topic. But Google is trying to ruin that too now. If you search, they literarily won't show what you searched for, instead filling it with rubbish that is NOT SEARCH!

[@jer1776]

Sometimes I have to search not signed in in incognito to find what Im looking for without personalized junk mixed in. Its absurd.

[@babyqeels]

@@jer1776this is why I tell every app “no” to cross-tracking. But of course google and KZbin don’t even ask

[@RedGreen-Blue]

Just what i said. Google and you tube are tools in the hands of the evil, who probably did pay them billions to do what is asked of them. It's the only thing which makes sense and explains their deliberate def and blind stance. The experiment -ing is for real but not for them. One lie covers another lie until it's too late to act.

[@ytmgsjoss]

The data scraping that AI does is so flawed considering anyone can say anything on the internet and that'll be factored into the research

[@AlphaMachina]

Amazon is ATROCIOUS nowadays. It's so entirely overrun by Chinese junk that it's almost pointless searching for some things on there anymore, and you certainly can't rely on the reviews.

[@Shajirr_]

Yep Amazon doesn't ban sellers that offer cash to delete your bad review. Or the ones that offer $ for good reviews. On the contrary, they might ban the user exposing the seller instead from being able to post reviews at all.

[@simpson6700]

not only is it full of chinese junk, but it's also expensive. that same chinese junk is half the price on ali express and a high quality equivalent is still cheaper than what they are selling on amazon.

[@censoredialogue]

yupp and it’s all the same product being drop shipped by 15 different ppl using Chat GPT to write their product listings for them

[@jackadam01]

You can buy a lot of the same crap from temu

[@jer1776]

The Amazon algorithm actively promotes sponsored garbage. I tried searching for a home video camera that wasnt wireless/cloud connect and guess what every single item was?

[@Talcticol]

If this video gets taken down it's canon.

[@BinkyTheToaster]

Amazon's search is just as bad; you can say "7.5 gallon trashcan" and you'll get a 50-gallon behemoth in the search, within 10 results of the top. Which wasn't 7.5 (or even close to) gallon.

[@RealFlicke]

Plus hundreds of pages full of chinese trash articles with randomly generated brand names.

[@lvcsslacker]

I was looking for a specific brand of windshield wipers on amazon. What came up was pages and pages of the six letter chinese brands (like tudbrt and pfhztg, etc.). I'm not speaking to the quality of their products, I'm speaking to the uselessness of Amazon not giving me specifically what I'm looking for.

[@potatoes5829]

I don't understand why so many people use amazon. I get that some things are only sold there, but trying to find anything on amazon is like trying to buy something from bigfoot himself.

[@Shajirr_]

@@potatoes5829 I sometimes buy tech there that isn't sold in any of the local shops. Usually all of it has a model number which does surface on Amazon's search.

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

Amazon Search is worse. Google lets you keep going to the next set of results, Amazon shows you their top 200-300, and nothing else. If a search or listing has 200k products in it, you are allowed to see less than a single percent of them.

[@scofrona]

What has also become nightmarishly difficult is finding WRITTEN reviews and how-to guides. A lot of time when I'm trying to look something up I don't want to open some 10+ minute algorithm bait youtube video to get a TLDR, and sometimes I want to be able to follow along with written instructions so I'm not pausing if I'm slow or waiting for the video host to reach a step. The other thing with written guides is they can be updated quickly and easily, and you can search keywords. Until video processing and language recognition/translation become good enough, you can't exactly search a youtube or tiktok video... and that's assuming the person making the video even knows what they're talking about in the first place or if they're just repeating information from another source they watched. So yeah, we're stuck in an era of misguided clickbait regurgitations of information, whether it's AI generated slop or not.

[@SamFerro]

This a million times over I could not agree more

[@EngChagas]

You just said it all. Agreed.

[@qcriverrat]

I was searching on KZbin recently for an ultra basic description of what to do in a first aid situation. First few videos I saw had absurd 2-5 minute intros, on a topic the creator knew the viewer would only be checking their site in a minor emergency. It's beyond the point now where we all despise the internet. If we could get a realist alternative to most of these now-shitty apps we'd be gone in an instance.

[@danielmethner6847]

That's what chatgpt is for. Use it.

[@cecyllavellans]

this has been exactly my experience. im a wheelchair user, and it's gotten progressively more difficult to find accessibility info for places i want to go, lists of accessible attractions in places i want to travel to, non-government services for physically disabled people, stuff like that. i had to buy a new chair last year and it took several weeks of whittling down search results to find something that'd actually work for me, when even in 2019 i remember it being way easier. it's extremely frustrating when im just looking for like, clothes and tech products, but when it affects stuff i need to know for daily functioning, it's completely demoralising.

[@krim7]

Google and KZbin search have plummeted in quality, very noticeably over the last year or so. When I search for a topic, why am I getting served barely related shorts and multiple sections of unrelated videos “for me”?

[@donnatrump1403]

Exactly! So stupid!

[@guiltygamerxrd]

The reddit trick is what I use but often what google highlights as the answer is wrong, you just have to go into the thread itself and see what people are saying. It is true that, part of searching for info now is figuring out what sources are even giving you reliable info and not just either lying or trying to make money off of you. This is why it takes me days or weeks to decide on what to buy when it comes to stuff like PC peripherals. I have to find time to read like 10 reddit threads and watch 5 youtube videos and wade through user reviews to figure out what I want to spend my money on.

[@snaeshaads8203]

I dont use reddit anymore because it can be very hivemindy. A lot of times you will see people either hating on or endorsing things theyve never even tried.

[@orchdork775]

Yep. It's mentally draining.

[@eggi4443]

​@@snaeshaads8203 yeah, their stupid karma system breeds echo chambers. but it can be useful when you're looking for a specific thing, like when you need help with a program. people usually upvote the most useful answer and it's really easy to find solutions to your problem

[@evanthesquirrel]

My most common use for Google these days is looking up hvac manufacturer pro tech support phone numbers. Half the time the numbers they give me are to a competitor of the unit I'm working on and i have an awkward conversation with a call center worker being "why are you calling us?" Because your boss paid google to have your numbers come up when i search for your competitor.

[@ficklefox2171]

And your boss probably pays you with the hope that you'd use your brain even a slight bit when he asked you to call hvac manufacturers. If you're just dialing and can't even figure out that the first thing you should do when you connect is verify who you are speaking with before bitching them out, you can't be helped.

[@dakota9821]

@@ficklefox2171 Clearly he can tell that the number google provided wasn't the one he actually wanted; Hence his post. You're not smart kid. Try again.

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

​@@ficklefox2171you must be very sheltered if this is your definition of "bitching someone out" -someone who has worked customer service phone lines and heard way WAY worse

[@daunted232]

Treat a search engine as you would treat directions from a stranger in a foreign country.

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

It shouldn't be like. Where am I supposed to go for specific things? Nowhere? Google used to be better for that, it isn't anymore. You shouldn't have to downgrade.

[@unicornkitteh5332]

Bruh that STILL doesn't work.

[@ericacano9057]

As someone who just came back a few months back from studying abroad in Japan, even strangers were more reliable than google. Like seriously. Google was so horrid when I was trying to use it in Japan. It was the one time I needed it the most that it was just doing a garbage job.

[@Onkel_Noah]

I once asked chatgpt what tape i could use to mod my keyboard and it told me to use a conductive one💀

[@jjcc8379]

Not only Google. Amazon has gone to absolute garbage too. Affiliate links and SEO are a hell of a corporate drug

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

Even Ebay, quite a few listings are sponsored ones that are usually not what you searched, or majorly overpriced.

[@SemekiIzuio]

Completely agree, want to buy a keyboard after 5 products it starts showing monitors and shells in the search

[@mr.guillotine3766]

I'm here for the Hipyo rants. Google has gone downhill and relatively quickly. I'm not bad at forcing it into better results, but I feel like I have to type up a short novel in order to get what I'm actually looking for these days.

[@vashistreddytadi]

yep and I hit the 32 word query limit :)

[@TechforRealLife]

It’s your channel man. If you need to rant, then rant! I like hearing your opinions even if I don’t agree. Plus this one was very much a PSA, so kudos for that!

[@Basomga]

I find that using reddit to search is useful because there usually may be a discussion within the results, so you get a better understanding of what you're looking for

[@jeddpires]

What I do: use search engine to get list of (best things), use search engine to go "is (best thing) good?", then access forum links that show up. Rinse and repeat step 2 for any alternatives forum users come up with

[@bpetruzzo]

This is how reddit as a source for information is useful. It's entirely in the discussions, which you have to parse yourself for credibility and accuracy and then make up your own mind, but in a lot of situations the discussions will give you a good idea of the various perspectives people have on a given topic or product, which then gives you a better idea of how to use the other terrible search mechanisms to find the information you're looking for.

[@crows6591]

I was just tired of the ai notification option spamming me, switched to Firefox a while ago

[@karstenfischer27]

Switched to firefox before mv3 got announced and definitely haven't looked back. A lot of people forget about firefox. I went to a friend's parent's house and told them I use firefox and they went "that still exists?".

[@yndihalda]

What is the "AI Notification Option" that you've mentioned? I only use Firefox so I've never come across it, but I'm curious to know.

[@Slawa_Saporogez]

​@@yndihalda Same. I also use FireFox never had to deal with AI notifications. I guess Fire Fox is an old school European thing tbh.

[@no-bark4112]

I have a dream that one day, people will make the correct decision to use Brave

[@GolfWangMedia-incorporated]

I did a History degree a few years ago and Google was an effing nightmare to find things. When I googled things in High school for the same subject, it was great.

[@taza99]

I think this video is focused on products mainly, but what if you don't want to search for products? I for example want to see images of a 40 year old car with a spoiler, same make and model as mine. So I search for "(car model) spoiler", and the results are honestly awful. Image search only wants to show me products, but guess what there are no spoilers for sale for a 40 year old car. So google image search just gives me products for entirely different cars. Insanely useless.

[@donnatrump1403]

You need to make a video, too. Google and youtube are useless.

[@pyro226]

Used to be able to find everything easy on google back in late 2000's and early 2010's. Since then, search has definitely declined :/

[@DrDiemotma]

Thank you! I thought I was the only one and it was age issues (turning 42 next month). But honestly, when you can buy priority in those search engines, something goes wrong. Because how they and AI work, that results in a boosting with results even in other sources who are trained with the bought search results. That really shifts the results over time.

[@icemann1908]

I'm turning 42 next month too!

[@Palmtop_User]

Ive always been a little bit of a wikipedia addict, that being said ive noticed more and more that ive started open wikipedia first before google for some queries. Its going to give me answers for many topics faster, easier, and more reliably for somethings, especially when its a search for something thats probably gonna have the wiki page be the first thing available anyways

[@MartinDubuque]

Ed Zitron's reporting on this has been scary, stuff getting worse and worse just so some exec can buy a 3rd yacht.

[@lvcsslacker]

I'm glad I'm not the only one referencing Ed.

[@Acetyl53]

That's not why it's happening. People need to move on from "follow the money", there's a whole world beyond it.

[@MartinDubuque]

@@Acetyl53 Then elucidate us. You're right there are many possible causes, but when oil companies rig prices, when Facebook inflated numbers to make companies pivot to video, when all these openly corrupt things happen, all for money, it's hard to imagine different. So let's say it isn't pure malicious intent for money. Instead, and you're right this is more likely, it's total incompetence by the managerial class who can't see the trees nor the forest, who's only goal is infinite growth, and they have zero clue how to do that, so they just follow whatever trends are making numbers go up right now (hello Google AI). So you're right, it isn't backroom dealings and shady emails, it's just some incompetent buffons put in charge of a company, pursuing the hottest tech trends instead of actually improving/fixing their product. And to that, I repeat: all this for another yacht.

[@Acetyl53]

@@MartinDubuque Money doesn't exist, and money and power are not the same thing. There are only 3 real things, and I do mean only 3. 1) The environment / natu8ral resources 2) Human existence 3) Human behavior There is nothing else, that's literally the extent of the human concept. All the little games and energetic gradients that form and make things move around are centered around modifying aspects of one or more of the above. There is nothing else to life, it's just energetic gradients that form sinks form movement within the system. Anyone who doesn't understand this won't be on top for long, which is why they made up money (moon eye, Horus, or mon-E, one E, one energy) to begin with.

[@MsSarahET]

​@Acetyl53 With companies, it is literally just "follow the money". Engineers are visionaries don't have a say under capitalism, only their money does

[@ldisc66]

Finding good product results on Google is a mess, but I'm not convinced it's entirely their fault. Corporations hire SEO companies to achieve maximum hits from Google search but in order to do that you have to sacrifice accuracy. Then there's the sites themselves. I go into Home Depot, find portable air conditioners and when I try to use THEIR filter to show only dual hose. The darn site STILL shows single hose results. So what does this mean? It's a whole cluster F out there.

[@RealFlicke]

But companies only do SEO because Google decided that that is their business model.

[@gothicanimeangel96]

The recent Google "updates" have included disabling algorithms that downprioritize spammy SEO pages, along with disabling some spell correction, to make people "google more" because they don't get the correct answers.

[@Äpple-pie-5k]

You got results for "dual mode high performance/energy savings, with output hose"... it had the word dual and the word hose. You have to learn tricks like using quotes. But yeah it's bad.

[@AnonyMap1]

I asked google maps for good shawarma and it suggested mostly sushi and Mexican restaurants

[@jmanakajosh9354]

😂

[@ellabun]

"Best" is terrible. These are all best: The most eco friendly keyboard, The keyboard with the largest wireless range, The keyboard with the highest polling rate, The keyboard with the longest and most durable cable, The thinnest keyboard, The keyboard with the softest buttons, The keyboard that sounds best, The keyboard that is easiest to clean, The keyboard that will last the longest, The keyboard with the biggest keys, The keyboard with the most tactile feedback, The keyboard with the smoothest travel, The keyboard with the least travel, The keyboard with the most travel, The most rigid keyboard, The most flexible keyboard, The lightest keyboard, The keyboard that moves the least on your desk, The smallest keyboard, The keyboard with the most keys, blaaaaaaaaa blaaaa bla

[@mats66]

Yes, I was thinking exactly the same. It was a terrible search term to use as an example.

[@donnatrump1403]

When you type 'best' it should come up with all those choices.

[@eggi4443]

but it's a good example of a question beginners use. they don't know what they're even supposed to look for in a keyboard and don't know what the possibilities are. when you're entering a completely new topic you don't know what answers to ask, you NEED something that will guide you

[@brazilianbanker33]

really hate that you can't click on the map after searching a place anymore. instead it just opens a slightly bigger map but not the actual google maps site. it used to open it up in google maps idk why they got rid of it

[@qcriverrat]

Found this video after searching "Google maps sucks now." Overall, it's still much better than any previous competition, but it's declined substantially. Best case scenario for me is it's a nice backup if I already know 90% of the drive.

[@B00jums]

I was thinking the same thing the other day after finding out that AI summaries are now a mandatory part of search. Totally OK with the topic choice, now I know I am not the only one that thinks search is getting worse.

[@randid.c3558]

Its hard as hell to find anything relating to symbolism or writing. Like all of the results is just AI spammed 'witchtok' articles with no actual bearing on items and their most common symbolism uses.

[@colonelk3000]

The other problem with review sites is that most just write up articles from spec sheets and never actually get hands on. I've also seen reports of some of the bigger sites being paid-for articles so the more the manufacturer pays the higher up they rank. :(

[@mirzahadzic8666]

The problem is that these algorithms use "authority" sites to provide information for certain category. For mechanical keyboards they use same sites as for any other PC peripheral - which is really stupid thing to do, when "mechanical keyboards" became separate topic from consumer mechanical keyboards long time ago.

[@tacoconch7678]

KZbin is terrible as well. You can put in an exact title of a video and they'll give you something totally different. It's ridiculous!

[@TechnoSpice]

It's not just google. Everything sucks now because advertising is pervasively everywhere without restraint. It's absolutely rediculous.

[@MikeStavola]

I gave a recommendation for an alternative search, and it got removed by youtube... and that's actually kinda concerning.

[@jmanakajosh9354]

Deeply concerning

[@LexiLunarpaw]

Too bad deal with it. The auto Moderater did it because it was in violation of the Channel Guidelines If they don't want links the ya better get used to it

[@donnatrump1403]

Write it again in code. Wanna switch.

[@LoggerMane]

@@LexiLunarpaw engrish preeze

[@simpson6700]

search being commercialized is possibly the worst thing that happened to the internet. the other day i was trying to look up how to program midi signals and some more technical stuff for my DIY synth, none of the first two pages told me anything about what i was looking for, it was all just "here buy this midi cable and plug it into this spot on your midi controller.

[@Hyperdeath.Kisses]

Thank you for doing a video about this! I’m researching black/goth cocktails to make since I want to make a cocktail based off my favorite Undertale character for my next video. The search results showed me recipes for drinks that don’t exist, showed me AI pictures of cocktails with no recipes and even after going out of my way to say “I want these cocktails without activated charcoal” because I take birth control, I got NOTHING BUT cocktails with activated charcoal in them. I just switched to Brave today and it’s already been an easier experience and considering the rumors of romance artists being blocked from their Google accounts for having more… passionate love scenes in their novels that they stored on Google Drive…. I don’t think I’m going back.

[@CubicApocalypse128]

Have you tried finding dark complimentary colors? Theoretically that should get you black, or at least really close to it.

[@Itsjettondon05]

When I turn to Google I’m normally confused, when I close Google I’m even more confused.

[@DomitionX]

There's a fundamental assumption that people make: That the search engine knows better than you what is real and what is not. Google isn't any better at it than you are.

[@mallk238]

I have recently gotten several browser extensions just for youtube alone to control how it provides me videos. Dearrow, sponsorblock, unhook, return youtube dislike are all there to do things like change youtube titles and thumbnails to be less “click baitey” using user submitted stuff or filtering out irrelevant search results and lemme tell ya…i can feel my brain losing its brainrot. Everything is so much less iverwhelming and straightforward. I’ve started using this one website that automatically includes this one line into my searches that completely removes just about everything obnoxious in google (like ai and sponsored results) This doesn’t change much. The fact that i need 6 or 7 browser extensions to use a website properly is sad to say the least. Like it’s nuts.

[@PocketBroto]

I'm allergic to peanuts and I was trying to figure out which brands are completely peanut free and don't contain cross contamination Not only it kept suggesting brands I know for a fact are contaminated but one place that listed "every peanut free product" straight ass had peanut butter in it

[@hayleygordon7969]

It is HILARIOUS how a KZbin page I follow for something completely unrelated is also talking about this - I've been a professional Search Engine Optimization and online marketer and have been following the recent changes at Google with a lot of interest - they've really messed things up

[@orchdork775]

Is there a search engine you would recommend instead?

[@markridlen4380]

So there's a big problem I have noticed, I call it search poisoning. Marketplaces offer the ability for small companies to sell their products (Newegg, Amazon, Walmart...) but then they label their products incorrectly. This allows them to show up on search results they don't belong in. It makes doing product comparison difficult. So a lot of the blame is with the marketplaces for not cracking down on this. It means that there are no fines for what I would call false advertising. There's a second problem, and that is fake products. I'm not just saying like a "Guchi" purse or "Niky" shoes that are knockoffs and still work, but stuff like SD cards and USB drives where it presents a fake size and doesn't work. This makes price comparisons difficult because you have no way of knowing if you are buying the best price or a scam. There seems to be little consequences for these flash in the pan stores.

[@mandelbro777]

We need an open source community project, which trains an LLM on trusted product reviews. Call it DBS LLM (Dont' Buy Sh*t Large Language Model). Google is also now completely broken for doing research. The first 10 years of the net was like paradise for a researcher, but now, it's a litter box that doesn't get cleaned.

[@TheGhostInTheWires]

Here's the thing, major websites got really good at SEO on Google. It's been figured out for years how to game Google's indexing. And it's now getting worse that companies can quickly generate hyperoptimized SEO-Clickbait with AI.

[@screes620]

Don't use the word "best" when searching, because "best" is subjective, and what is best for you might not be best for someone else. I would instead search for the phrase "Custom mechanical keyboard", and then if i knew nothing, i'd make sure to read through at least a half dozen of the top results. It's not just keyboards. Anything i wanna find, don't use "best" in the search. It's like a cursed search term that always gives you crap results. Being good at searching google is definitely a skill, a lot of people are bad at it. You have to know what words to avoid and what words to use to get the results you want.

[@MamaMOB]

And that shouldn't be the case. It didn't used to be the case.

[@Slawa_Saporogez]

Nowadays most sites compete with each other for engagement. Because advertisements on the internet are cheap, they usually include words like "best", "top", "most [subjective description, like suitable for regular people]", ... . You need to examine the source first, their offer later. For instance NYTimes is definitely not trusted in tech, thus everything they propose from tech products is an advertisement.

[@mats66]

​@MamaMOB yeah but before it wasn't any auto-generated affiliate sites with extremely perfect SEO either....

[@MamaMOB]

Google goes by keywords. It does not take all of the keywords into account together. That's why you get millions of responses that have absolutely nothing to do with what you asked. I literally asked Google for things and gotten the exact opposite answer. It's mind-boggling! Oh and their advanced search does nothing anymore!

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

Even putting the keywords you want in quotes only works about half the time.

[@cra0cristal]

And if you actually use the advanced search operators, Google thinks you're a damn robot and puts you through like 30 captchas so you can train their computer vision for free! 😵‍💫

[@Prince_Asuda]

@@cra0cristal Yeah, and the worst part is when you answer the captchas "too perfectly" 30 times in a row, so it thinks you are a really advanced bot or something and blocks you anyway. I've had to start purposefully putting in a mistake or two so that the captcha will believe that it detected "human error" and let me pass. 🤦 Or at least that's how it feels. It is so bizarre.

[@reaperreaper5098]

Point of contention. Dampened means to be made wet, and you do that with a dampener. Whereas you're using a damper to make your keyboard damped. SuperFastMatt pointed it out in one of his videos, and I can't not forward it. Plus, it boosts engagement.

[@HipyoTech]

my god I'm so dumb - still probably gonna say dampened tho its too stuck in my brain

[@maximavitus]

Wait a second. While dampened does literally mean to be made wet, it is also a term used in both music and physics. Both respectively use it to describe reduction of vibrations, frequency, oscillations. So keep on using :)

[@MamaMOB]

​​​@@maximavitusor the musicians and scientists using the word incorrectly?

[@regrox]

Never heard of a sound dampener?

[@potatoes5829]

@@maximavitus or like a dampener in a car

[@qwertyzxaszc6323]

It's scary at a minimum and dangerous at worst to have one monopoly in Google to be the gateway to everything. How did we get here? Google pays off Apple BILLIONS to be a good boy and just take the money and not ask questions and just make them default. It's impossible for anyone, even a huge tech company with deep pockets like Microsoft to make a dent.We need government to step in. This is crazy. We desperatley need competition in search.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

It's technofeudalism.

[@Acetyl53]

Please stop with this whole tone and vibe you're doing. Calm down.

[@qwertyzxaszc6323]

@@Acetyl53 relax, I’m just stating the obvious. Tell the prominent people in the industry who say the exact same thing. Take a deep breath go outside and touch grass.

[@Acetyl53]

@@qwertyzxaszc6323 Projection. Total yawn.

[@takethesquid]

The latest casualty of mammon, there is absolutely nothing in the observable universe that advertisers and profiteers won't ruin

[@FragEightyfive]

9:48 No, google is supposed to keep you on their site for as long as possible. You just said it took you hours. Google worked exactly as it was supposed to. I really wish I was being sarcastic here. :(

[@Katze822228]

Compared to the youtube search the google search still works great. The youtube search is completely messed up nowadays. If you want to find videos on a certain product and there is a similar, more popular product, sometimes 90%+ of results are videos on the other more popular product. Even if you type in the exact name. With monitors it's really bad because a single different letter in the name usually means that it uses a completely different pannel. And as you scroll down more and more it just repeats the videos it has already shown earlier in the search instead of showing the less popular videos that you were actually looking for.

[@Acetyl53]

Stopped reading at "compared". That's "lesser evil" thinking. Purge that from your mind. They're both garbage. They're all garbage. Duckduckgo, garbage. Google, garbage. Bing, garbage. Yandex, eh... garbage. Startpage, garbage. There is no "works great". Not by an absolute metric, and not by a comparative one either. All of them of them are 100% complete garbage and it's intentional.

[@TurboLoveTrain]

You're too young to have seen the old google. It is unusable compared to what it used to be.

[@yensteel]

Which period were you referring to? It was ok in 2002 onwards at least. Pre 2000, ask jeves, alivista, and yahoo were popular, although terrible.

[@escapeee]

@@yensteelJeaves was good tho, did a pretty decent job at times. R.I.P. Jeaves wherever you are. 😢

[@TurboLoveTrain]

@@yensteel When you could buy the IPO stock for $100 USD.

[@mrshaggy-z4n]

Bing is actually 10× worse with the search results recently lol. I googled articles about social withdrawal during COVID-19 and they kept giving me elections stats from Ireland. 😭

[@GuineaPigsAdventures]

I can’t ever find anything on google 🙄 I just look for KZbin reviews now 😂 I like the new video style too.

[@matthewjouffray]

I’m in NYC for the week end and finding stores selling specific clothing items is a real chore. Like the stores exist, but you have to wrestle Google for it to give up the info and not your generic H&Ms.

[@joakimrosenfeldt9530]

To be honest, I don't really see this as a fault of Google, but more the internet as a whole. Especially since the insurgence of LLMs, the internet has had an extreme overflow of low quality content (AI-generated). And I think it's pretty hard for Google to sort that stuff out of searches, because they still use the same SEO techniques...

[@cleep14]

The thing that I find both annoying and funny with Google maps is whenever you are going somewhere and it's giving you directions, it will point out restaurants and stores. it's funny because it sounds makes it sound like someone who points things out by landmarks. It's annoying because it's obviously a sponsored.

[@dantwister5106]

The biggest shit is that google cache is gone

[@records26]

"Hipyo Rants" is great. I found you through your AirUp video, and while I appreciate your other vids the topic of keyboards just doesn't hold my attention for long. Incorporating your style into other topics like this is awesome.

[@CptJistuce]

Rtings isn't an affiliate farm. And they are actually hella good for TV and monitor reviews. But yeah, as a grizzled ancient tech nerd from Gen X... the internet as a whole has gone to shit. Google is a dumpster fire, and some of that is definitely due to things they have done intentionally, but they only get partial credit.

[@midnight_yota]

Yeah on the waveform podcast they mentioned the best part of the improved ai features is the ability to understand natural language, however the biggest downside is how much they "hallucinate" and give you the wrong information.

[@Aerobrake]

Glad I found you before Google's enpoopification.

[@reallyWyrd]

Cory Doctorow knows what he's talking about on this one. So does Ed Zitron.

[@AlphabetisShyt]

Can't wait for the company to be broken up.

[@mrdarryljones1]

You hear about your Waveform shout-out?

[@DevTook]

The fact that tiktok's search engine is way more effective than KZbin's is very telling.

[@sergiomarc4826]

- obliterates Alphabet in some teeny/childish influencer video-essay; - post it on his channel inside Google's own (BOUGHT) platform; - refuses to elaborate; - leaves.

[@AllergicToFantasy]

I'm a couple minutes in and waiting for something useful. Sounds like it's time to bail...

[@dissraps6034]

The first one is a bad example because you're looking for some completely subjective, and what keyboard were you even expecting? Who makes lists of top of the line keyboards even year for you to even find? Of course you're just going to find lists of people selling you things

[@tankafer3127]

i don't know about google, i use duckduck since a decade

[@HipyoTech]

They are getting AI search now as well :D

[@Steerable6827]

Duckduckgo is just a white label Bing

[@pineconepinapple471]

Same

[@MikeStavola]

Duckduckgo is essentially a frontend for Google.

[@maxevocal]

I had an odd niche question, wanted specifics, and i went to bing as a last resort. As soon as i saw the AI logo, i turned away; aint no way in hell i'm going to read language model hallucinations

[@depressingNicolai-sv8ky]

Adblockers help tremendously, and common sense does aswell.

[@ekinkalpakli8508]

The search results are now as bad as they were a couple years ago when you accidentally got malware

[@khanfauji7]

I just used Google after months to find an image and it sucks hard.

[@Rustybike_]

I searched up black keycaps I had to go through like 2 pages of white keycaps to find black ones. And searching for expensive keyboards only budget shows up for some reason.

[@juliofaria4503]

My biggest struggle these times has been finding drawings and images from legit sources and, well, if I don't go to the bottom/mid bottom of reddit running pages to find some small yet dedicated artists that still do their paintings in the normal fashioned way (paper, canva, oil based ink, acrilycs, pencils, and even some purely digital ones that still full of technic), I simply got flooded with Ai generated images, or Ai based edition, or some of this stuff that, besides being useful for some people in specific situations, doesn't help anything at all when you are trying to improve your own art perspective and technic

[@NATESOR]

Amazon and walmart will show a widget, for $2.00, and then when you go to sort the results from prices low to high, the first result (after sponsered garbage, of course) is widgets for $5.00 and the price only ever goes up as you go down the list. (and/or a bunch of things that aren't widgets)

[@allanlimaverde6201]

My girlfriend googled the name of a movie we wanted to watch just to know where it was streamed, and Google gave her an AI-generated summary of the plot, basically spoiling the whole movie

[@seeranos]

Google is so much worse. I've resorted to different apps/sites for each category of search interest. Pinterest for images, Meetup for events, opentable for restaurants, etc

[@ChristopherHailey]

GJ expanding your topic domain. You put out something different but used keebs as kind of an anchor. I think you could do a lot of stuff on user experience with devices - keyboards or other things related to user experience.

[@Linkachus17]

14:07 AI Hallucinating, that is the only worst thing that happened to me.

[@SlurpieDoo]

i had that EXACT air con problem last year.. i got so frustrated it took me like 2 days to then give up and get a proper aircon installed

[@emmaselten5264]

Nice video. Year, lately i had more luck going to forums and search there directly for people that had similiar questions, than getting the answer directly on google.

[@blackfalcon53]

There is a term for these monopolies making their services worse in pursuit of profit once there is no real completion - enshittification. Great video!

[@nslammer]

as a person getting into this hobby I cannot stress enough that it is very complicated to get to the right information, borderline impossible. From recomendations to shops (for some reason, I am unable to find almost anything in Europe) etc. etc.

[@BLoren]

Good video. It's depressing to think about how much sales has driven the internet towards being an unusable hellscape and will probably continue to do so unless something changes... Scary about your cat. Glad you caught that!

[@koudani]

As a developer, sometimes it seems downright impossible to find what I want. But not only limited to programming queries. Regular searches too, more often than not are very hard to get what I wanted.

[@foreverthefool2863]

Google AND KZbin suck ass so hard now. You try to look up original videos/sources of things and get EVERYTHING BUT... honestly they need a total rework.

[@AEmiliusLives]

It's crazy how I can no longer find stuff that I researched recently and I'm only trying to confirm or expand on, and it's nowhere to be found. Lucky sometimes I have some quotes in my notes, so I google for a phrase in quotation marks in order to find the phrase verbatim, and only THEN the actual source appears in searches again. It's infuriating.