Technology

There are a few probs with qwant unfortunately and I assume ecosia might be the same. It isn't available in all countries so it's sometimes blocked when I am on a VPN. The performance is shocking on the other side of the world. Terrible latency. Often fails completely to return results. Then the search results aren't really good enough either. Tends to return a lot of links from similar sources like it doesn't have much of an index. Its ok for really simple mainstream searches but I regularly need to fall back to no AI ddg or udm14 google.

Unless I want a clanker response. Actually I never want a clanker response but web indexing has become so poor in the pursuit of ad revenue then AI that sometimes it's hard to get anything useful out of search queries these days. It's very frustrating.

But what if what your are looking for is AI generated articles that don't provide any trustworthy answers or top 10 lists of products that their manufacturers paid the site to figure on the list? Google is still the best for that.

I use DDG and SearXNG several times per day. It's better at finding information in StackOverflow and Reddit threads than directly searching in those sites and it's the only way I know how to actively seek out websites I haven't been referred to by anyone.

Yes. Also combined with:

1. replace all entry level jobs with AI
2. run out of experienced people because nobody new can learn the skills required
3. ???
4. profit

But you see, for a brief moment, we made the shareholders very rich, and that was a beautiful moment totally worth everything.

They can't see past their next set of financial statements. And the government wants those content creators to fail so they can control all information.

A LOT of people out there just read whatever tho google AI tells them on their search. They've been trained that the answer is always the 1st non-ad link on Google. And now the thing at the top of a Google search is their LLM answer.

Just add Wikipedia to your search bar

...why don’t you just go to Wikipedia to begin with? I’m honestly asking. URLs still exist.

I tried kagi a while back and liked it so much I subscribe now. Google messed up the one thing they ever did right.

Duck Duck Go

DDG lets you just turn off the AI crap.

Do yourself a favor and don't use Google at all

Here are alternatives

1. Brave Search or DuckDuckGo They do have similar AI features but you can disable them.
2. Or, Just use StartPage, It's basically shows you Google results but without any if Google's bloat nor their tracking.

edit; stupif typ0

https://udm14.com/ , you can also add "&udm=14" to your normal google link so you don't have to rely un udm14.com, there should be a tutorial on the site

Unfortunately, most of the first page of results is often AI slop at this point...

Literally everyone, do people ever leave the Lemmy/reddit bubble?