#websearching — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #websearching, aggregated by home.social.
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🔮✨ Behold the "Research Goblin" 🤖, an #AI so adept at Googling for you, it practically graduates with a PhD in irrelevance! 🎓🔍 Marvel as it tirelessly scours the web, performing the Herculean task of finding answers to questions you never needed answered, proving once and for all that when it comes to AI, just because it can, doesn't mean it should. 🙃
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/ #ResearchGoblin #Irrelevance #TechHumor #AIOverload #WebSearching #HackerNews #ngated -
The (-) minus sign is heavily underrated for #webSearching.
You can eliminate results from sites you don't like by simply prepending a #minusSign to the site descriptor.
The following removes common cloudFlare and #amazon results from a #CSS search:
> css mask vs clip -site:css-tricks.com -site:mozilla.org
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Is it time to adopt a #newInternet?
#Tor and #i2p can help us cut through the #corporateState #narratives. Even if we don't use Tor. Using services like #Searx for #webSearching and #invidious for #videoAccess we can help to break the existing power structure.
How we use #technology affects us.
#Protesting is not enough. We also need to #network, #educate, #organise #engage with powerholders and #disobey where needed. We need to get #NEOED.
Smarter use of tech can get us there faster.