@nf3xn Democracy and basic human intelligence … seems trendy to be a denier and that it’s actually countercultural and nonconformist to look at facts now.
After over a decade, all my student loans are finally paid off! Hard to believe. All of the money from my workshops, books, etc went into that and now they're done 🥳🎉🥂
Have been trying Mojeek for a few days, ever since the Bing #Searchapocalypse. Sadly, on balance I find myself making two searches per search now: one to search Mojeek and the other using another Provider to get the result I actually need.
It's a plucky little engine that does get basic searches right but it's currently not where I'm used to with the bigger engines.
Now going to give Searx another go. My chosen instance is [http://priv.au]. In testing of the Instances available this is the first one I found that scores very high for accuracy, and it's near the top of the table in all the metrics.
Searx is an aggregator leaning heavily on Google and Bing but protecting you from the worst of the identity data-slurp-age. That said, putting the same searches in there as I've been trialling in Mojeek is, so far, nailing what I'm looking for. The images below are a good example of what I'm getting.
Search Term: UK General Election
Intent: find information about current affairs.
Searx: a page of very recent articles from the last week discussing the 2024 GE and news associated with it.
Mojeek: Articles going back a decade or more talking in general terms about a General Election and giving results from previous ones. A trio of more recent "News" items are shown in a side-bar at the bottom of the page. Switching to the News tab shows me more of what I'm searching for but it's still not as good as Searx, and involves that extra click.
Searx (Google/Bing) seem to understand current search context far better than Mojeek does.
As much as I'd like to break free of the Search Duo-poly getting accurate results in a timely manner is my priority right now.
@Uraael From what I understand, Mojeek will improve on its results if it has a larger user base, so its algorithm can learn. Itʼs sadly a catch-22, because itʼs not the best at ranking the results, and that turns people away.
For me, the Bing search apocalypse was 2022 when the index tanked, and in that time Iʼve watched Mojeek steadily improve, though I get that itʼs still not where it could be for certain searches.
These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
@futurebird Plus, those lists are bogus sometimes. My name has been on one for the last five months, linked to Google and SEO. This is BS, but it hasnʼt stopped hundreds of people writing misinformation about me, just so they think they are pleasing Google. Then there are new idiots who join in (at least one a day) and their LLMs then reference the earlier junk. Real GIGO. Medium and Quora have deleted the posts there, but Linkedin says misinformation is OK.
@unnameduser It was probably the last time a mainstream manufacturer there tried to do something different, though the niche players kept trying cool things, e.g. the McLaren F1. And maybe the 1980 Austin Mini Metro would count as sufficiently different, too. It might not look that unusual today, but I still remember what a big deal it was then.
Company posts #misinformation about me. Company continues to post misinformation about me after I tell them what they wrote was false. Here is the consequence.
@msquebanh At least one a day! They all believe this search engine program called Semrush. Iʼve alerted Semrush, to no avail, so five months on I continue to do this.