cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1271267
What do you guys think about this? (Wasn’t sure which community to post this in)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1271267
What do you guys think about this? (Wasn’t sure which community to post this in)
I don’t think you understand, we are the ones who are getting fucked. Search results are getting worse and harder for you to find what you need with all the ads, fake news, sponsored sites, ai generated articles, etc… Google doesn’t care if you find high quality results, they will still gett traffic and their money because people won’t just stop using it.
I’ve been hearing some good things about Kagi so i have been contemplating to try it.
It is subscription based but still;
If there is a service that serves me as a customer to better my experience using a search engine than I’ll gladly pay for it.
Don’t use Google.
Learn how to search the internet, its not hard.
Adblock is your friend.
People will stop using it only when it becomes unbearable. Their own business tbh.
Reddit is still one of the best place to find answers by real people because of the disappearance of traditional forums.
Nah, it was.
Most of the answers are still there, just behind a locked door. So it will is, for the few who have access.
What search engines you suggest? Duckduckgo is useless for me, but so is google nowadays tbh.
I like startpage. It’s not perfect but works. If I still cant find anything I search google. 95% of the time it just works.
@Stijn @krevassi, Startpage is probably one of the best search engines, I used it among others as second of my list, but for first searches I use 2 AI search engines which show me direct answers to complex questions.
https://andisearch.com
https://www.perplexity.ai
and sometimes also
https://you.com
All of these protect privacy and made by small independent startups
AI search seems like something to dip my toes into. Thanks for the tips.
@krevassi @IcyPractice @CookieJarObserver @DeriHunter @Stijn, anyway, don’t confuse AI search with AI chats, like ChatGPT, because these have a maybe better Language model, but it’s knowledge base is limited (the one of ChatGPT is from 2021), they don’t search in the web. Because of this the answers are not reliable or at least outdated.
@CatWeazle Tried out andi and it is excellent, looked for jobs in my area and it gave me a list of links, all relevant. Also you have an option to only read the linked articles, no need to visit the page so you can bypass gdpr-bs and advertisement. That’s going to be bookmarked permanently.
I’ve replaced probably 70% of my searching with ChatGPT.
Thats one hell of a bad idea.
There good and sometimes better alternatives to Google, you can easily leave without it or use it only when necessary
It doesn’t solve the issue that the answer you’re looking for is on Reddit and isn’t accessible anymore…
I mean, good for us for screwing up Reddit, but the transition impacts more than just Reddit itself because subreddits are going private and people are deleting their posts, that’s a whole lot of knowledge just disappearing from the internet overnight and that’s never a good thing! I don’t know how many times I tried to find solutions or answers to tech related questions and the only place I could find an actual answer was on Reddit because it was actual people speaking to each other!
Yeah, for the short term. But the long term if lemmy can become the successor. It won’t be long until it get will get back to normal
It took ten years for Reddit to reach that point, that’s a whole lot of info that people probably won’t talk about again but that might concern some people, just not as many as when the subject was new.
Example, my soundbar has technical issues when plugged in a certain way and that can be solved through some settings on the TV, the only answer I found was on Reddit on a sub that is now locked down. That soundbar isn’t for sale anymore and hasn’t been for a couple of years, so now I’m have to troubleshoot the issue by myself if I ever unplug it and if I sell it to someone when I upgrade then they’re shit out of luck 🤷