#searchengines — Public Fediverse posts

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

SearXNG is a free open source self-hostable search engine which fetches its results from major search engines that you have configured it to use. More info about it on its website at:

🌱 https://searxng.org

If you're moderately techy you can self-host it via @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/searxng

If you're very techy manual installation instructions are at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/index.html

(By the way, SearXNG is a fork of SearX. SearX is no longer maintained.)

#SelfHosting #SearchEngines #FOSS

SearXNG is a free open source self-hostable search engine which fetches its results from major search engines that you have configured it to use. More info about it on its website at:

🌱 https://searxng.org

If you're moderately techy you can self-host it via @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/searxng

If you're very techy manual installation instructions are at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/index.html

(By the way, SearXNG is a fork of SearX. SearX is no longer maintained.)

#SelfHosting #SearchEngines #FOSS

ICYMI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

ICYMI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

ICYMI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #SearchEngines #GoogleRivals #AIChatbots #DataDelivery #SEO

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

„Größte Verschlechterung seit 29 Jahren“: #Google :google: passt für Europa die Suche an | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Groesste-Verschlechterung-seit-29-Jahren-Google-passt-fuer-Europa-die-Suche-an-11446040.html #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #SearchEngine #SearchEngines

„Größte Verschlechterung seit 29 Jahren“: #Google :google: passt für Europa die Suche an | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Groesste-Verschlechterung-seit-29-Jahren-Google-passt-fuer-Europa-die-Suche-an-11446040.html #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #SearchEngine #SearchEngines

I'm only trying to influence you to read this thing I wrote. I spent nearly fifteen minutes on it! So, c'mon!

Check out a random #blogpost called "Worth It"

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/09/worth-it/

#Blog #SocialMedia #BloggingForFun #SearchEngines

I'm only trying to influence you to read this thing I wrote. I spent nearly fifteen minutes on it! So, c'mon!

Check out a random #blogpost called "Worth It"

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/09/worth-it/

#Blog #SocialMedia #BloggingForFun #SearchEngines

@futurebird

Have you seen https://marginalia-search.com/

And also the modern version of the former dmoz directory, now https://curlie.org/about.html

#SearchEngines

@futurebird

Have you seen https://marginalia-search.com/

And also the modern version of the former dmoz directory, now https://curlie.org/about.html

#SearchEngines

Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AI #SearchEngines

Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #Chatbots #SearchEngines #DataDelivery

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

Ars Technica: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment. “In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and […]

Ars Technica: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment. “In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and […]

Ars Technica: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment. “In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and […]

Ars Technica: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment. “In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and […]

Ars Technica: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment. “In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and […]

I posted this about a year ago. Might be a good time to repost it.

"Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240289407A1/en ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.

"Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250124067A1/en ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.

"User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2025102041A1/en ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).

"Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2024064249A1/en ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).

"Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240256965A1/en ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-0870/23-0870.pdf ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).

This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11769017B1/en )

#google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents

https://www.seo-theory.com/how-to-read-patents-for-seo/

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/03/google-tests-ai-search-controls-with-click-data-missing-xcxwbn/

Google is testing Search Console controls for AI Search, giving UK site owners an opt-out that cuts generative visibility but leaves click data missing.

#AI #SearchConsole #Google #GoogleSearch #SearchEngines #AISearch #AIMode #AIOverviews #Publishers

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/26/eu-nears-major-dma-fine-against-google-in-search-case-xcxwbn/

The EU is reportedly preparing a major Digital Markets Act fine against Google over search self-preferencing, with a decision expected before the summer break.

#Google #GoogleSearch #SearchEngines #EUDigitalMarketsAct #Antitrust #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #EURegulations

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-22-26

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-05-22-26/

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/20/googles-ask-youtube-feature-might-do-for-creators-what-ai-overviews-did-for-web-publishers-xcxwbn/

After AI Overviews Hit Publishers, Google’s Ask YouTube May Come for Creators

#AI #AskYouTube #YouTube #Google #AlphabetInc #AISearch #GoogleSearch #SearchEngines

A #study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that hundreds of English-language websites, including #mainstream #news outlets, are #linking to articles from the pro-Kremlin #Pravda network. This network, identified by the French government, is flooding the internet with #disinformation, potentially influencing #searchengines and #LLMs. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/english-language-websites-link-pro-kremlin-russian-propaganda-pravda-network?eicker.news #tech #media #news

@SuperDicq @Vivaldi
#VivaldiBrowser's most important thing is the #UI. #OpenSourcing it all would still mean letting others take it, no matter of how it is with others.
After all, #VivaldiTechnologies is a company that relies mainly on this. Some people complain about #DirectMatch and #sponsored #searchEngines, even though they are removable. If they would #openSource it, soon there would appear a “#debloated #Vivaldi” version #forked by some people. How would Vivaldi make money then, I ask you?

As part of the final judgment, Google is now required to share click-through data with qualified competitors.

This is a historic move toward search engine interoperability and could reshape the competitive landscape of search and AI training data.

📄 Full judgment (286 pages):
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25032745-045110819896/

#Google #Antitrust #SearchEngines #Interoperability #OpenSearch #DigitalMarkets #CompetitionLaw #TechPolicy #DataAccess #PlatformRegulation #SearchMonopoly

Spotted on Reddit: MP3.com Archive Search. “There are a few different archives of the audio files from MP3.com but I don’t think any of them are as complete as this one. Artist and song links go to mp3-2003.computer-legacy.com which hosts a copy of the skeleton (some song pages seem to be missing). This website and the skeleton it is based on do not include any audio, instead I embedded the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/spotted-on-reddit-mp3-com-archive-search/

Spotted on Reddit: MP3.com Archive Search. “There are a few different archives of the audio files from MP3.com but I don’t think any of them are as complete as this one. Artist and song links go to mp3-2003.computer-legacy.com which hosts a copy of the skeleton (some song pages seem to be missing). This website and the skeleton it is based on do not include any audio, instead I embedded the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/spotted-on-reddit-mp3-com-archive-search/

Apparently Naim Qassem has been announced the new leader of Hezbollah and I was thinking "who da fuq iz dat" and so I did a web search and it's good to know Amazon are paying for ad space, claiming I can buy my own Naim Qassem on their web store.

#NaimQassem #Hezbollah #Ecosia #Amazon #Advertising #SearchEngines

This workweek felt longer than usual because Thursday had me going to Dallas and back for an upcoming story. As booked, this itinerary would have put about 17 hours between my stepping off my front porch in the morning and returning to my house late at night, but as flown it returned me home three hours later than planned, almost 21 hours after I’d woken up. Patreon readers, I hope you will enjoy my upcoming recap of that prolonged day.

7/22/2024: Why the Tech Industry Refuses to Learn From Disastrous Outages, The New Republic

A friend filling in at TNR–the same one who helped me get my first byline at that publication last July–asked if I could turn around a post about lessons from the CrowdStrike calamity. I said I could, received an editorial green light for my pitch at 11:37 a.m., got useful quotes from three of six subject-matter experts I’d hit up for comment, and filed the piece at 5 p.m. sharp.

7/23/2024: TikTok, YouTube Battle for Satisfaction Supremacy, Facebook Hate Calms a Bit, PCMag

In my latest coverage of the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s ratings of social-media and search-engine firms, I called out the contradiction between search operators having such closely-spaced satisfaction rankings and Google’s overwhelming dominance of the market.

7/23/2024: Sydney Sweeney’s X Account Reportedly Hijacked Via (Yet Another) SIM Swap, PCMag

The celebrity angle didn’t make me want to cover the account takeover that 404 Media’s Joseph Cox reported, but seeing a telecom carrier once again apparently fall prey to a SIM-swap attack made me want to remind readers that this risk is not going away. And that they should not depend on text-message-based two-factor authentication for the most important accounts in their lives.

7/24/2024: Buttigieg Plays the Long Game on EVs, But He’s Not Sold on the Cybertruck, PCMag

I didn’t have Tuesday night’s Axios event featuring Secretary Pete on my calendar until Monday, when an e-mail from that publication listed it among other upcoming events. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it hadn’t hit capacity by the time I signed up.

7/26/2024: Senators: Your Driving Data May Have Been Sold For as Little as 26 Cents, PCMag

Two days later, I returned to the topic of cars to cover how Sens. Ed Markey (D.-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) documented how readily and how cheaply some car manufacturers will sell off driving-behavior data to data brokers.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/07/28/weekly-output-tech-monocultures-social-media-satisfaction-sim-swap-attacks-pete-buttigieg-connected-cars-and-data-brokers/

#ACSI #connectedCarPrivacy #connectedCars #CrowdStrike #electricCars #EVs #ITMonoculture #PeteButtigieg #searchEngines #SIMSwap #socialMediaSatisfaction #SydneySweeney #TNR #XAccountTakeover

⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar Tip 1
Search operators help get more accurate search results in most search engines:

🔴 Plus sign +
Used to connect several search words. Today, you can simply write those in the search field.

🔴 Minus sign -
Lets you exclude search results.

🔴 Inverted Commas "..."
For specific groups of words in a certain order or a word in exact spelling.

⬇️ More tips:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/adventcalendar-2023/

#AdventCalendar #OpenWebSearch #SafeSearch #SearchEngines