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“I Don’t Google Anymore. I TikTok.”

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I can't say that I blame them. Quick, short, easy to digest videos that get to the point.

Youtube used to be that way until it got littered with ads, pre-rolls, etc and creators were essentially penalized for making short videos. YouTube videos have become way too drawn out.

TikTok is perfect for the shorter attention span audience.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ads will eventually make TikTok shit to use, too.

The web is dead. The closest remnants you can find of the glory days are on Gemini.

Users have been complaining about Google Search being awful for a while now. It’s only a matter of time before a radical incumbent totally changes the game.

TikTok’s search solves the SEO spam problem, and the content feels more organic. If you want to find things like how to cook a recipe, or how to build a bike, nowhere is better than TikTok. There’s a lot of good, educational content on this app, and their search does an amazing job surfacing it.

I hope Google can compete with this, but I’m not optimistic.

The best way to learn to cook is longform video [1] or some good cookbook. The rest is just being in the kitchen.

TikTok and other shortform content always either gloss over important parts or don't actually look like good recipes - just good recipes to see in a bitesized video. Cooking for the non-cook.

I've tried some TikTok things I've seen, but they're always super simple (like a potato dish and a sauce) and not a full-featured recipe you can serve for dinner like a coq au vin

[1] e.g. Laura Vitale on YouTube for a perfect example - I've tried 10s of her recipes and they never fail and I often learn something. The videos are 10-20 min long, and their format makes you feel more confident going into the kitchen because you actually saw someone cook something. She makes instagram reels too, but they are just ads for her show. You can't actually act on them.

TikTok is Chinese spyware, it’s not even remotely close to anything from the glory days of the internet. There is not enough traffic being driven to independent, small sites, the web has consolidated to a few, highly politicized, tightly controlled, sites.

But you have to watch a video right? IMO that's a terrible way to consume content for entertainment purposes. Great for advertisers though.

Don't use either of those.

Currently I can't recommend any search engine. DuckDuckGo seems to be the least-bad, but they have begun to apply some political censorship of certain content, which is bad. At least they - hopefully - don't disclose people's search histories to 3rd parties.

you.com is more private in private mode, has more developer features including code snippets and AI code completion, and fights bias by letting you choose your preferred sources.

It also has a TikTok app - which you can up or down vote.

you should probably mention that you are the ceo of you.com

yea. i do on most of my YOU-related posts but forgot here.

I assume "private mode" requires registering with you guys?

If that's the case, then by default you're worse than DDG by your own comparison.

no need to register.

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