Posts by HarryF

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

A spot on and enjoyable article, Steven.

I, too, used Gopher, Archie, AltaVista, and Lycos (that was a fling!) before settling down with Google back when their whole company fit into a small office in Palo Alto.

This year I’ve switched to using Perplexity as a research assistant and found it far more helpful than Google Search ever was…so much so that their $20/month fee for “Pro” service seems reasonable even to a miser like me.

Your comment on Google’s enshittification is OK, too, but I still view Amazon as the poster child for this, though I still put up with their s- - t.

A spot on and enjoyable article, Steven.

I, too, used Gopher, Archie, AltaVista, and Lycos (that was a fling!) before settling down with Google back when their whole company fit into a small office in Palo Alto.

This year I’ve switched to using Perplexity as a research assistant and found it far more helpful than Google Search ever was…so much so that their $20/month fee for “Pro” service seems reasonable even to a miser like me.

Your comment on Google’s enshittification is OK, too, but I still view Amazon as the poster child for this, though I still put up with their s- - t.