#search — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #search, aggregated by home.social.
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Google is testing direct image search support within the Play Store's "Ask Play" AI feature
Google may also retire the “Ask Play about this app” section in favor of sticky, horizontally scrollable question chips
✅ Details with screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-ask-play-image-search-apk-teardown-3702161
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Should search be a national infrastructure initiative (for countries in general, not just Canada)?
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Discussed Venn diagrams with a couple of friends this morning, especially in the context of illustrating the utility of including all 3 or 4 of a specific set of design principles when creating certain kinds of things, and learned about the difference between Venn diagrams and Euler diagrams.
In short:
* a Venn diagram shows ALL possible relationships between different sets
* an Euler diagram shows only some relationships between different sets, typically focused on conveying relevant or the more important relationships
If you want to dive into their history and why these differences matter, bookmark (or open new tab) this Scientific American article to rabbithole later:
* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/venn-diagrams-history-and-popularity-outside-of-math-explained/
In pop culture and media, nearly any diagram of overlapping circles with labeled regions is (errantly) referred to as a “Venn diagram”.
This is imprecise at best, outright incorrect in many cases, especially diagrams of four circles.
A classic example is the “Ikigai” diagram:
Many (examples below) call this a Venn diagram. It is not a Venn diagram. It is an Euler diagram.
The Ikigai diagram fails to express two specific relationships between different sets, the two that contain opposing side circles but neither of the other two. The missing Ikigai sets relationships in particular:
1. only “you are good at” AND “the world needs” (with neither of the other two)
2. only “you love” AND “you can be paid for” (again with neither of the other two)
If you Google web search for "examples of four circle venn diagrams", Gemini gets this wrong:
And so do the majority of articles that Google shows in top results (which I’m not helping by linking here, but hey it’s Google’s job to fix its search quality, not mine. I was able to use Internet Archive links for two of them at least.)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20260823204717/https://boardmix.com/knowledge/4-circle-venn-diagrams/
* https://miro.com/templates/4-circle-venn-diagram/ (Miro’s own top template there is wrong, though others have contributed proper 4 set Venn diagrams)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20260823205434/https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/venn-4-circles-diagram
* https://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/EW_venndiagram_4
This has interesting implications for expertise and trust.
Clearly by this one example search result, we cannot trust the expertise of "design tool" websites (boardmix, miro), nor stock photo websites.
Nor can we trust educationworld as a place to be educated.
Nor can we trust Google Search (or Google Gemini) to surface expertise above popular misconceptions.
Perhaps a good example of when to use Wikipedia search instead of Google (or other generic) web search.
Personally I generalize this example to “all proper nouns”, that is:
* Wikipedia search proper nouns instead Google or other general web searching.
You can make this more convenient by setting up “w” as a search shortcut for Wikipedia: https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox
For reference / more reading on Venn diagrams and Euler diagrams:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram
#Venn #diagram #diagrams #VennDiagram #VennDiagrams #EulerDiagram #setTheory #relationships #Ikigai #fourCircles #fourCirclesVenn #fourCirclesVennDiagram #misconception #popMisconception #Google #GoogleSearch #GoogleWebSearch #webSearch #search #Gemini #GoogleGemini #GeminiWrong #expertise #trust #webTrust #Wikipedia
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Parallel Search Fast — cheap, fast web search built for cheap models.
$1 per 1,000 results. ~700ms latency. #3 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index. Built to pair with DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT-5.6 Luna, Qwen3.8 27B.
For agents: web search is often 48-68% of total agent cost. Parallel brings that under 12%. 2.2x-2.8x cheaper end-to-end than Brave, Exa Fast, or Tavily Basic.
Cheap search is what makes cheap-model agents viable.
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The extension now works very well, I'm kinda testing it but more importantly I'm now reading literature from Brave and https://www.0x65.dev/ to make sure I get around their level of personal data protection #brave #opensource #eco #private #data
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Hister v0.18.0 is out!
- New search suggestion UI with history completions, fields, facets, and sorting
- Import PDF, DOCX, Markdown, Org mode, and text files
- New Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, and Discourse extractors
- Responsive terminal result details
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Hister just reached 2,000 stars and 100 forks on GitHub! 🎉
I am incredibly grateful to everyone who tried it, shared feedback, reported bugs, contributed code, or helped spread the word. Seeing this much interest in a free software personal search engine is super encouraging.
Thank you all! 💚
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Kagi just shipped two useful updates.
Its Stocks widget now supports ETFs, interactive price charts, multiple time ranges, and more market data.
It also added an “Exclude paywalled websites” setting that automatically removes known paywalled sites from search results.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/kagi-stocks-widget-paywall-setting.html
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It's *so* annoying that the occupation of census respondents isn't a search parameter in the 1926 census. One of the easiest ways of sorting out who you want!
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
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(Extension still in development)
Finally, this works in PriEco Web Discovery extension. Next step is security #firefox #extension #search #opensource #private #eco
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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.
https://justpaste.in/news/google-gives-publishers-a-new-way-to-fight-ai-driven-traffic-losses/
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Firefox 154 adds Startpage as a built-in search option on desktop in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. 🔎
Queries aren’t stored or linked to users, and Startpage offers no AI-generated answers. 🛡️🔗 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/startpage-on-firefox/
#TechNews #Firefox #Startpage #Privacy #PrivateSearch #Mozilla #OpenSource #FOSS #Security #Europe #Web #Search #Technology #DigitalRights #Browser
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What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think
https://blog.8ball.space/what-we-lost-when-search/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388446
#HackerNews #search #technology #criticalthinking #digitalculture #lossinquiry
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154
#HackerNews #Kagi #paywall #search #results #setting #searchengine #privacy #technews
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Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools
The launch of the new study features marks Google’s latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.
https://justpaste.in/news/google-launches-new-study-tools-for-students-across-search-and-gemini/
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WP Engine Smart Search AI: I Tested It on Five Live Sites
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WP Engine opened Smart Search AI to every WordPress site on 11 August. I ran[…]
#WordPress #Tools #AI #search #WPEngine #WPEngine’sSmartSearchAIhttps://www.wpnews.io/wp-engine-smart-search-ai-i-tested-it-on-five-live-sites/
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I'd like to invite you to join our #chat communities. They are in the footer of https://prieco.net/
If I posted the links here, we would get bots there, so please don't mind the extra step #opensource #private #eco
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I'm starting loving it!
I'm creating very automated set up for PriEco
It isn't front-end so you can't interact with it, but it makes #development and #online #posting so much easier and enjoyable
I'm not talking about vibe-coding #private #opensource #eco #automation
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Consensus Beats Claude and ChatGPT in Academic Search - Consensus: AI Search Engine for Research consensus.app/home/blog/cons… #AI #search #libraries