dfk41 It is not adverts as such.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I filter them. I tried the same search - I see this…

    Try Bing. Also the Bing AI Chat.

    Firefox and Ad-Guard, to stop you tube adverts and pop ups, Firefox has many useful add-ons as well.

    google will always show sponsers and adverts first, its one of their revenue streams.

      I will bet my house on the picture of you being the one with the chappie poking his tongue out. Now why would I think that?😁

        hubcap Yes, I understand that hubcap. I used Chrome before and was always reasonably happy with the extensions like Adblock. But, I get sick and tired of searching for a specific thing, for example your type in the name of a company and they appear twelfth after Amazon etc all selling you rubbish. Have we really let things get to the extent that the same big companies control all aspects of our life……..me, I like to fight back and fuck them!

        https://www.suddencardiacarrestuk.org/2024/02/thank-goodness-for-madeira-cake/

            dfk41

            I do understand the annoyance, My pet peeve is companies like Microsoft updating things differently, after I have it setup how I want it, it seems like an update just for the sake of it, when one is not needed.

            But it is what it is.

            If I type in “Eureka” for example, i don’t get what I’m after but if I type in “Eureka coffee” it appears at the top of the google list, Maybe give abit more info in the search field.

              dfk41

              I use Opera browser with addons like Ublock origin & Privacy badger and that cuts out almost all sponsered ads when searching, even with google.

              An option is to use the ‘Brave’ browser and secure search it provides to eliminate ads. I gave it a quick go and it seemed okay, if I wasn’t happy with my current Opera set up I’d change.

                  dfk41

                  I have listed the extensions I run in Opera which will get you to a speedy set up without too much faff🙂

                  • Disable html 5 autoplay (to allow me to choose when to watch videos and not have them autoload within a webpage)
                  • Homepage in New Tab
                  • Opera Ad Blocker
                  • Privacy Badger
                  • Ublock Origin

                  Did you have a look at Brave?

                      I’d question the very premise that it’s physically possible for Google to get worse.

                      Oh sorry, you mean the search part of Google. I don’t know, I haven’t used it in years. i do know that I woudn’t cross the road to pee on Google, if they were on fire.

                      As a company, I have them as #1 on my list of “sucks, big time”.

                      I shall now go quiet before I really get in to my standard Google rant.

                        dfk41 I REMEMBER THE EARLY DAYS WHEN THEY REVOLUTIONED SEARCH ENGINES, THEN IT ALL WNET DOWNHILL…..sorry for the caps, old age!

                        Yup, me too. I remember buying, actualliy in a box, in an actual shop (remember them??) a copy of Netscape, to get away from IE. Google makes me yearn for the old days …. though there’s a lot about computing back then I don’t miss one little bit, too.

                        At the risk of over-dosing n nostalgia, I also remember my very early programming attempts …. storing the program on a 7-char ASCII papertape, and uploading it to the mainframe via an acoustic coupler, connectd to a teletype machine.

                        The program was a modded version of Battleships, by the way. :D

                        Yeah, there I was, using a couple of million quid’s worth of huge great computer …. to play Battleships. Those were the days, dfk, those were the days. And Google not even yet a twinkle in Larry and Sergey’s eyes.

                            CoffeePhilE I remember buying, actualliy in a box

                            This is actually the important bit. When we bought software the customer/provider relationship was clear. Now the business model is much muddier - people rarely choose to buy software outright, or have no option to. Software is now provided as a service, either in return for subscription fees (looking at you Adobe) or in informed or uninformed acceptance that we are consenting to our data being used by these companies for income.

                            As the model matured the small players got eaten by the bigger ones and we consumers have little choice but to submit to tech giants milking us as much as they possibly can. You might think you are fighting back by deleting FB etc but probably don’t want the inconvenience of avoiding Microsoft, Apple, Google, PayPal, Amazon et al.

                            Regulation always lags years behind innovation so the power increasingly sits with the tech giants, politicians seem to tacitly acknowledge this by wanting to be seen as close to the innovators so that they give the illusion of remaining relevant. Humanity is doomed, time to give the cockroaches their chance.

                                Google is getting worse because SEO.

                                When Google started and many years later they indexed the WWW and results were better, since the programming of the websites were “honest”.

                                Now, many smart people found out what Google requires to prioritise positions on the search results… the result is that each search query provides tens if not hundreds of bullshit websites filled with the keywords and other stuff that is just there to meet Google requirements but not users 😓