#search engine

[varsityhearts]

it turns out its actually very easy to set up a custom search engine . so! here's the MASH transcript search engine i've always wished for!

it pulls from the transcripts on subslikescript and is hopefully a useful resource for finding out which episodes specific words/phrases/lines of dialogue are from . it helps makes it easier to locate scenes for edit making, see how often certain phrases appear in the show or just trying to remember what episode That One Thing happened in . i also recommend using quotation marks for better success when searching for phrases! like this:

inspired by @butch--dan's eternally useful spn search engine + thank you @theblob1958 for directing me to a decent transcript source :-)

[pretentiousbrownie]

Google Search is now Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Search

That means that all searches as of today (Tuesday, May 26, 2026) are being run through Gemini’s latest model on both the input and output sides, regardless of previous opt-in or -out preferences

Here’s what you’re going to do:

Download and Install Firefox Mobile

Open the 3-dot Menu

Tap on “Settings”

Go to “Search”

Under “Alternative Search Engines,” tap “Add Search Engine”

Name it however you’d like and enter this: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&noai

Tap “Save”

Back in the “Search” menu, go to “Default Search Engine”

Tap on the newly added DuckDuckGo

Back in the “Search” menu, you’ll see Google enabled in your “Alternative Search Engines” - disable the toggle to remove Google results

Happy searching!

[probablyasocialecologist]

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to A…

Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit, making one of the web’s most valuable repositories of user generated content exclusive to the internet’s already dominant search engine. If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week. DuckDuckGo is currently turning up seven links when searching Reddit, but provides no data on where the links go or why, instead only saying that “We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.” Older results will still show up, but these search engines are no longer able to “crawl” Reddit, meaning that Google is the only search engine that will turn up results from Reddit going forward. Searching for Reddit still works on Kagi, an independent, paid search engine that buys part of its search index from Google. The news shows how Google’s near monopoly on search is now actively hindering other companies’ ability to compete at a time when Google is facing increasing criticism over the quality of its search results. And while neither Reddit or Google responded to a request for comment, it appears that the exclusion of other search engines is the result of a multi-million dollar deal that gives Google the right to scrape Reddit for data to train its AI products.

July 24 2024

[warakami-vaporwave]

Windows! 94

[charl0ttan]

whats the writing website where you have to keep typing or you lose everytihng

[nixcraft]

I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!

[allykatsart]

Hello! I had a question regarding your internet humans! (awesome designs btw) Do you happen to have any idea of what search engines might look like? I was thinking they might be some like... greater life form ig? bc they sort of house every single website out there, but honestly I'm not really sure and I'd love to see what you think/come up with!

So... that's not actually how search engines work. They do not "house every single website" within them. Lemme educate y'all a bit since I know I've got some youngin's here!

Back in the old days (before search engines), to find a website you would have to know it's URL and type it into the address bar (not the search bar, the one with the URL). This was back in the days before the internet had really taken off.

Search Engines were websites you went to that searched for other websites. At first they just looked for similar URL's, then they started incorporating tags that people put under their photos. Then that slowly grew to using keywords, meta data, etc!

(And then companies started paying to get their websites at the top of the search results. And then some search engines started recording personal data and selling it to advertisers. And then they got so big they could start influencing politics. But I digress)

I guess, for the Internet Humans, search engines are also websites! I guess they'd act as... Guides? Maybe traffic controllers? Idk, something that directed you to go where you needed to go. Of course, sometimes they'll just straight deceive the customer to make a quick buck.

They'd have eyes that can see into a websites' data and scan it for what they need. It's a little unnerving to be around them/hold a conversation with them because of that. They're always looking for something...