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I've already moved to other search engines as this AI slop really muddled the search results too much.
I’ve been wanting to switch to something else but everything I’ve tried is equally shitty or depends on Google anyway. Halp.
I don't know if this kagi has a stealth marketing campaign going on Lemmy or not but I keep hearing about it. But I'm so fucking frustrated with search, even duck duck go, I'm just ready to pay already
I tried Kagi and while I really really wanted to like it, cause the concept is great, I was very unimpressed. It’s not mostly their fault, the internet as a whole has just become more and more shit.
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Uh not me, I use a much healthier and better alternative: Grok, the thinking man's thinking machine. Anyway Webster's dictionary defines white genocide as
For a website that's so insistent on making readers register, it would be nice if they got a bit better at remembering that I already signed in. Sheesh
lol yeah. Pisses me off, too. You on Firefox by any chance?
Yep!
I was really hoping you weren't. I just checked Chrome, where I logged in about a month ago by mistake, and it hasn't logged me out. That unfortunately means that 404 is contributing to the Blink monopoly, which is sad.
Anyway, if you happen to have a paid subscription, the RSS feed permanently logs you in.
I have noticed that the "Oxford English" word definitions are incomplete enough to be misleading.
Pft ya right, I’m going to research this myself. ::google searches:: have you guys heard of pizzagate? I think it’s tied to trump and the Epstein files. Joe Rogan says so.
Also Santa is real and he only give presents out in October, NOT December!
Nothing could ruin my brain after I ate rocks
AI is a tool not an absolute point of reference.
If I use Gemini, I require that the linked website back up what it is telling me. If there is no linked website. I. don't. accept.
After looking at results for awhile, you can 100% tell if Gemini will get it right or not. And as you say, the times it's right will have a couple of links below it with the information.
"what was Earth's population in 1986?"
AI answer, spot on, with a page of links agreeing.
My favorite stupid responses are when it tries to converse about a query that's not appropriate.
"pilot in Airplane! beating everyone up"
In recent news, a Delta Airlines co-pilot, identified as Rustom Bhagwagar, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) after landing a flight from Minneapolis. The arrest was made by federal agents...
Result I wanted was third from the bottom.
Google’s AI is destroying Google. I doubt it’s doing anything to DuckDuckGo or my brain. “Destroying the internet” also seems a bit much.
Maybe we shouldn't feel so safe using DDG. It still relies on Bing results, which could be enshittified just as much if not more than Google's.
DDG results are getting worse too, but it could just be because AI slop is so good at SEO.
The first page of results I get for “solution” queries, are almost always just chatbox 3 page general essays about the search term I used, but no actual solution.
People don't want to admit that DDG has been a steaming shitloaf for more than a year
I tried Kagi out and enabled the setting to minimize SEO spammy/AI sloppy search results.
It's not 100% perfect, but it's noticeably better than my last few years of DDG usage. When I search for "How to X" or "Best X buyer's guide", I actually get real results. And not just equivalent to adding "site:reddit" to my search, I mean real hobbyist or professional forums where people have been discussing this shit for years. It's really refreshing.
Ddg is just as mangled as google except you can't choose 'verbatim'
Google's SEO algorithm destroyed the internet.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/12/how-seo-is-gentrifying-the-internet