When did they become pants. I remember when you would have a sentence a word or whatever and you would get lots of results from everywhere in your results. Now you just get an AI rubbish response and a few adverts trying to sell something. I feel as if information is being restricted.
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Dr.Al
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I think these day is there are so many A.I. generated sites out there, most of which are nonsense or worse. It gets to the slightly daft situation that you need an A.I. to filter out all the A.I. slop.
For what it's worth, duckduckgo.com seems the best search engine for not having too much in the way of advertising & other clutter.
For what it's worth, duckduckgo.com seems the best search engine for not having too much in the way of advertising & other clutter.
Cory Doctorow has written about this a lot, and coined an appropriate word for it.
More here:
en.wikipedia.org
More here:
Enshittification - Wikipedia
Mike G
Petrified Pine
Try Duckduckgo, wallace. You get results which aren't biased by what people pay, it isn't swamped with advertising, and your searches aren't tracked. I've been using it for years, and find it a huge leap above Google, given what shows up when my wife, who won't swap, does a search.
Dr.Al
Old Oak
For what it's worth, some browsers (Vivaldi at the very least) allow easy temporary switching of search engine.
Like Mike, I mostly use duckduckgo, but very, very occasionally I find google gives better results.
If you normally search using the browser address bar (as accessed with Ctrl-L or clicking up the top of the window) by typing (say) "something something" it'll go to your default search engine (duckduckgo in my case). If instead you type "g something something", Vivaldi will do the same search in google. There are prefix characters for quite a few search engines (and you can add your own):
Like Mike, I mostly use duckduckgo, but very, very occasionally I find google gives better results.
If you normally search using the browser address bar (as accessed with Ctrl-L or clicking up the top of the window) by typing (say) "something something" it'll go to your default search engine (duckduckgo in my case). If instead you type "g something something", Vivaldi will do the same search in google. There are prefix characters for quite a few search engines (and you can add your own):
Mike
Sapling
I use the non-AI version of DuckDuckGo. Replace the WWW with NOAI in the URL.
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I use Google and DuckDuckGo- without Ai, must say I find the Ai on Google handy sometimes when I’m really pushing the boundaries and don’t know what to ask for, it often will give me that one word that then directs me to what I really should be looking for.
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Steve Maskery
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Is that screen shot showing something from Vivaldi or from Windows?
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Dr.Al
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From the Vivaldi settings page