Ok, made the switch to #Firefox and wondering what extensions people recommend. I’ve installed Badger, Facebook Container, Search By Image, and Dark Background and Light Text.
"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
> Using DDG instead of Goggle is a step in either the right direction.
DDG is one option.
> What web search engines do you recommend?
We stopped doing recommendations. We literally roll a dice to pick a #searchEngine these days. They can be played off each other, too. It was super-interesting that #DDG found NOTHING about one FOSS publishers details recently whereas another #searchEngine found plenty.
Oh look it works again, thought when it wanted to access #X anonymously it didn't work anymore. Apparently it now works again like on #Twitter and you can distribute its anonym here in the #Fediverse over a #Nitter instance. It's more convenient to avoid the data collection frenzy of this #web recording for your #privacy.
Search for "debian hamster" on DuckDuckGo and got some questionable results... which apparently, are from Bing. No, no, Bing, I was searching for "Debian Hamster" (which is a work related time tracking tool for tracking time spent on projects). Not this other search. But, SURE, let's throw LLMs at your crappy search data instead, that will fix the problem, I am sure. #Linux#SearchEngine#crappy
PerplexityAI is a LLM/DL-powered search engine. I tried it and it is impressive!
Perplexity shows citations for its response, which I consider a must-have feature to use any AI search engine. Google should be afraid, I'm switching to give Perplexity a shot full-time since the experience has been good.
Google PH says "SIM registration" was the most searched in news in the country. The top 3 most searched shows or series were K-drama "Duty After School," Filipino drama "Maria Clara at Ibarra," and another K-drama "Moving."
I'm wondering if I should block the entire instance...
With what I'm writing, I can't accept stupid and malicious comments, which would be fatal for some people...and we know how users are on other platforms.
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In terms of recent page indexing & news searches, unfortunately only Google holds the monopoly.
In looking for this news article on Grist that appeared in my news reader ("Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves"), #Brave search, #DuckDuckGo, and #Bing all failed to pull up the article, but #Google did.
This use case is very common for me, so I would love if a #SearchEngine competed with Google on this. For now, I have to use Google for news searches.
Are there any #searchEngine recommendations that are good at filtering out #seo crap, like when a pop up ad-laden "blog" post robotically repeats search terms over and over?
Earlier, I'd open DDG and type in my search query.
These days, I open a query in #DDG, duplicate the tab to use '!g' and '!yt' to search #Google and #YouTube, ask #ChatGPT and #Bard for ideas to refine my search, also look on #lemmy and #reddit, and I still feel like I might have missed out...
Google is the new Lycos or Altavista. DDG is AskJeeves, I guess.
Time for a new #searchengine, I guess. Maybe, a mashup/aggregator? 🤔
This page comes up if I search for '"stable diffusion" Radeon linux': /vectorlinux.com/stable-diffusion-radeon/
(https removed to not add to the page's search rank, currently top on DDG).
It's fake, almost certainly machine-generated. It swaps my search keywords into some generic text, e. g. "One of the standout features of the Stable Diffusion Radeon is its impressive processing power."
@zeh@alcinnz
>have been seeing the worse results from duckduckgo
We're not the only ones who have been complaining about this recently. I was very happy with DDG for years and I still really like the fact that I can search the Free Software Directory by adding !fsd to my keywords. But their general search results have gone massively downhill in the last year or two, and I blame Bing.
#Gigablast ← does their own crawling, but what happened?.. they were dissolved last year & seem to now be www.alltheinternet.com
#Ombrelo ← a proxy but more advanced than the others (filters/downranks Cloudflare sites)
#YaCy is notable because it’s a crawler that you can install and operate yourself. YaCy instances can be public-facing and they can also share indexes with each other fedi style apparently. Some Searx instances tap YaCy instances.
I would love to find a searx or 4get instance that rejects the tech giants, but aggregates from YaCy, mojeek, gigablast, metager, maginalia.nu, frogfind.com, & wiby.me.
And I would love it even more if it would make replacements: