A magical word.
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Works. DON’T TELL ANYONE OR ELSE THEYLL FIX IT.
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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OMG it really does!!!
Fucking cheat code!
Fuck!
Ok so I will do that going forward...
Fucking great
Fuck me. That actually works.
I get around it by using Qwant
Not using Google is also an option. Especially when alternatives are better now.
This is magic!!!
Also, depending on what you're searching for, this could occasionally provide results which were not what you were expecting. Sometimes better than what you were expecting, sometimes much, much worse.
I'm more surprised that people still use Google search at all after the years of enshittification — first the SEO crap, then "personalized search" bubbles, and finally the "AI" idiocy. Even shouting questions down a wishing well seems more productive at this point.
Not to sound confrontational, but you're way too focused on your - likely rather advanced - usage.
90% of people search for very simple stuff. They want to know the weather or want to know about that new movie they don't quite remember the name of. And for that use case, Google is perfectly serviceable. And since people are used to it, for example by it being the default on most platforms, they use it.
A lot of market leaders are objectively a bad choice, but they're a known brand. Coca cola, McDonald's, Oracle, etc.
I don't think you sound confrontational, but neither do I consider my internet searching particularly advanced. A lot of my searches are exactly what you describe, and a lot is trying to find a good research rabbit hole to go down. Call me curious.
I'm just sceptical, primarily of Google Search's inroads into surveillance monetisation and effective monopoly. For the same reasons I am as critical of the other "market leaders" you mention; I don't consider the ability to inspire brand loyalty in millions of consumers to sell crap products a quality 🤷
I would honestly consider anyone that uses Lemmy or the Fediverse to be more advanced than the average user.
On average maybe, but no individual is average and Lenny is growing.
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Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc all suffer the same problems. I’d love to hear other alternatives (and I don’t mean alternatives like searx that is little more than lipstick on a pig and proxies search results from said engines).
well there’s european based search engines like marginalia-search.com (but it mainly uses keywords, but has search filters at the bottom of the search result) and stract.com (which is in beta), I’d like to see if there’s more tho
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equivalent of spraying graffiti to keep the rents down.
Does
That work?
9mm cartridges are about $0.25 each. Occasionally popping off about $2 worth can save you $400/mo.
Did we just solve the rent/housing crisis?
"The Gang Solves The Housing Crisis"
I think you just made the most compelling case ever for liberals owning guns.
Also scares the shit out of my dog :(
But she’ll deal with it if we’re saving money because that’s more treats!
I had never imagined people killing boxes cost this little.
Only as long as the graffiti is bad/sloppy.
Well, I can't draw for shit so...
Sure. Rich people don't want to live anywhere where poor people also live.
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just tested, works well. fuck
Sounds like it’d be a worthwhile browser extension to insert that into every search.
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Yeah, but that, uh, also alters her search results.
-fuck
Seems to still work and not affect the search. In my limited testing that is. If this keeps working someone just needs to create a extension the auto adds -fuck to all searches.
But what if I don't want to exclude "fuck?" That would filter out half of my code comments
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Seems like more work than installing ublock origin and using duck duck go.
duck duck go has been giving me AI summaries / suggestions
You can turn it off but if your cookies are cleared you have to do it again.
I removed it using ublock
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