#internet-search — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #internet-search, aggregated by home.social.
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I often think that "The end of Google Search and the start of Google AI" is what the Internet brought on himself.
That is the result of sites abusing the SEO: White-Labeling, Topical Pisalignment, Affiliate Farming, Cyclical Links, etc.
Yeah, I'll prefer 100% a summary from an AI than trying to navigate on their shit from a trustworthy source for a simple recommendation.
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Do you make a search engine and want more market share?
Provide a button that says "exclude sites with ads" or "order results with fewer ads first" and enjoy the huge surge in users.
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🎌🖼️ Apparently, the world has been eagerly awaiting the ability to upload blurry smartphone photos of Japanese woodblock prints to a magical #database that claims it can find anything. Because obviously, everyone’s weekend project involves deciphering 18th-century art via the sheer computational brilliance of an internet search engine. 😂🔍
https://ukiyo-e.org/ #blurryphotos #Japaneseart #woodblockprints #techhumor #internetsearch #18thcenturyart #HackerNews #ngated -
You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
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I seem to be on a roll with my blog lately, surpassing my goal of at least one post a month.
#InternetSearch: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/12/internet-search-yesterday-today-tomorrow.html -
Today is #FreeWebSearch Day! 🔎🌐
Free Web Search Day is an annual event promoting free, open and transparent #internetsearch.
As a partner in the @openwebsearcheu project, LRZ is working on the development of a European infrastructure for #websearch. Find out why this is important in this video: https://vimeo.com/1072290094/2ae3702438?share=copy
Further information about Free Web Search Day: https://freewebsearch.org/
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Techdirt: New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’. “…now, as a sneaky amendment to a completely unrelated bill, Russia has passed a law that will criminalize searching for any content the Russian government decides is verboten.”
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I've been using duckduckgo for a while but their new "Feature" of an AI assist was the final straw to try startpage.com
Are there any other good ones?
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Now when I use DuckDuckGo to search the internet for casual information I get a special box of info called “Assist”. At the bottom of the box: “Auto-generated based on listed sources. May contain inaccuracies.”
What the? May contain inaccuracies? Why do it then? Just to waste my time?
What is this brave new world of possibly inaccurate information & what do I do about it?
Edit: Thanks to Mark C @markc568 for the solution: “Clivk the gear and you can turn it off for all searches”. It worked! Mark C is my hero!
#MayContainInaccuracies #DuckDuckGo #InternetSearch #InformationSearch #ArtificialIdiot #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses
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🎉 Big news, everyone! Kagi Assistant is now available to ALL (*huge gasp*) users who are totally okay with paying $15/month for a "beautiful" interface and the privilege of unmanipulated internet searches. 🤔 Because, clearly, nothing screams "humanize the web" like yet another subscription model. 🚀💸
https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all #KagiAssistant #SubscriptionModel #UserExperience #InternetSearch #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Duck Duck Go is garbage, I’ve tried to stick with it, but I really need something better. Ugh. Not going to use G, tho.
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I'm considering a Kagi subscription, but I don't want to give money to an AI product. I don't think they're making the world a better place, and I'm concerned about the data sourcing and quality. I don't want to legitimize that part of the product. I only want better search.