memes @lemmy.world The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world 2mo ago

It was so bright and helpful

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Hey, here's some random shit that isn't related to your search at all, but it has a word slightly similar to a word in your search! BUY IT!!!
- "I know the word you typed is a real word, but I searched for something else anyways because that's what more people do"
- ^Ad Search Results
I hate that search engine degradation is what’s lead me to use AI more. Instead of searching past pages full of 8 ads for a waffle recipe, I ask Copilot or something: “Give me a basic waffle recipe”.

So much computation to go back to what the web used to be great at.
- I knew Google started ignoring double quotes for required text years ago, but I found out yesterday that it doesn't even think "site:xyz.com" needs to be followed.
  
  I was researching something and saw some Reddit posts. Clicked below it to view results from Reddit and a third of them were other websites.
  
  Google has always respected my double quote and site: searches. Please share a screenshot of it borken, I looked online and don’t see examples. If you have the time for a silly little thing :)
  
  They ignore any and all of their operators if there is more money to be made by doing so.
- I know Lemmy doesn't like it, but Kagi is really great
  
  Lemmy doesn't like it for a reason.
  
  Lemmy just likes shitting on popular things to feel superior
  
  You keep on Kagi'ing
  
  Lemmy loves Kagi. At least this Lemming does.
  
  Astroturfing bad
  
  Good search good
  
  The former is unconfirmed to be sure
  
  I’m liking $0 SearXNG: lots of instances if you don’t host your own (for max privacy I think)
  
  Germany/Spain hosted instance with all the checkmarks (Vanilla, IPv6, 100% uptime): https://searxng.site
  
  If you fancy paying for a decent cause, don’t see a problem with the paid option sometimes suspiciously mentioned on Lemmy. Free trialing it saw a pleasant experience.
- I just tell AI to google stuff for me and link me to the best results...let it wade through the ads and spam.
- Kagi has a really neat feature that if you phrase your search in the form of a question and add a question mark to the end of it, it'll summarize all of the top results and give footnotes to the pages that it evaluated. It saves me tons of time!
This post article goes REALLY into why. I am in no way a techie nor do I really care too much what goes on in the tech sector. I will never build a PC. Regardless, that article is extremely well written and worth the time despite the length.
- Cannot upvote this enough. I subscribed to this guy's newsletter because of this article; it's honestly excellent.
  
  What guy? Link above is broken :(
- Nope nope nope nope nope
  
  yeah that's why I switched engines.
  
  You:
  
  Google's response:
I have to know if the bottom is a real cake or if it's photoshopped. I hope it's real.
- Real cake. It's fondant.
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/FondantHate/s/kcaa6TFYnP
  
  For those who don't care for r*****, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondant_icing
- Probably children's clay
If I search for something specific I now usually ask chatgpt and describe what I'm looking for. The results are often (not always) far better.

I don't want to click through 50 pages of unrelated shit anymore.
Just google in general really
Coming out of my cage and I'm doing just fine
Honestly this made my day!

I want that cake.
Surprised nobody here has mentioned Kagi yet.
- Surprised SearXNG is underrated. Basically what Kagi does but open source and self hosteable.
  
  Searx is great, but Kagi has a completely different data source set than Searx. Searx is basically just an aggregator for various search engines.
- Kagi kicks ass! There, are you happy? I really do feel that way though. I'm very pleased with my decision to switch.
- Thank you. Im going to check this out later tonight.
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