“Machines, pretending to be humans, talking to other machines that also pretend to be humans: I had not expected our technological future to be scripted by Samuel Beckett.”
@ghrasko Never expected by whom? Because if popular #SearchEngines are now presenting #LLM results first, then yes, their users expect them to know everything on the Internet.
Don't confuse your views with those of the wider population.
One of the biggest problems on the web is search — especially from a privacy perspective. we need to setup our own search engines, so that get more universal results without manipulation. Also could we federate the m? Remember how the original Napster worked?! Perhaps we could setup our search engines to work like Napster.
Without proper SEO considerations, search engines may struggle to understand changes that take place during a migration, leading to a loss of rankings and overall performance.
Involving SEOs throughout the website migration ensures that the migration is planned and executed correctly at all stages to minimise the negative impact on organic search visibility.
Regardless of whether it's a CMS change, domain change etc., always involve your SEO teams!
For some vintage and retro devices (or for a variety of other reasons) you might want a super-lightweight method of searching the web or simple links of news.
I saw @osz mention the SUPER lightweight search site http://frogfind.com (which is powered by DuckDuckGo) and also http://68k.news (which is a simple HTML link version of Google News).
These two sites are SO cool and potentially useful.
'Yahoo, an early trailblazer of the Internet boom, is 'very profitable,' and ready to return to public markets via an initial public offering. That’s according to Chief Executive Jim Lanzone, who made the comments in an interview with the Financial Times that published Tuesday.'
(If anybody can pull this off, it's Jim Lanzone. I haven't forgotten what he did at Ask.)
Before the Internet became the advertisement generator we know and love today, interspersed with interesting information here and there, it was originally a network of computers largely among various universities.
Assange is tortured (according to #UN) for over 4 years now in the #UK.
We searched for the date of his arrest (11 April 2023), but the search itself was revealing (see results below). They show just how bad the #legacyMedia and #legacyInternet have become.
It seems some #searchEngines and media outlets operate to present data to greivously malign #JulianAssange and misrepresent his situation.
We expect better from #Qwant Search. Thankfully, #Metager seems better.
In an earlier post, I extolled the virtues of the #SearchEngine#Neeva, which was one of the first to use #AI to deliver a search result summary. I take it all back. Neeva suddenly announced it will be shutting down on June 1, and even before that date, it already sold itself to #BigData company #Snowflake. It is an almost comical example of sellout and betrayal. I should never have trusted a guy who used to be a #Google insider.
And when I used #Neeva to ask for alternative #SearchEngines that don’t #track or collect #data, it recommended #Bing. So there’s your reliable #AI result…. 😂
@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.
@zeh@alcinnz I've been experimenting with a few search engines recently, including Mojeek, Metager.org, SearchMySite.net and the Searx instances at Monocles.de.
I've also figured out to how to configure my Firefox-based mobile browser to search for videos directly on YewTube (Invidio.us instance), and for green tech info on Appropedia.org, and I plan to add more sites to this (eg search.joinpeertube.org).
The First Search Engines, Built By Librarians (hackaday.com)
Before the Internet became the advertisement generator we know and love today, interspersed with interesting information here and there, it was originally a network of computers largely among various universities.