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I'm documenting my nonsensical web search for my WIP because I find it very funny.
ok we all can see that google's "ai summaries" are a bullshit ploy to paywall all traffic to everything if things weren't enshittified, here's what we could have: search results that have both direct pattern matches as well as semantic equivalence matches, with little colors or numbers showing the relative match levels another thing: a parallel set of results suggesting jumps to different phrases or topics that might contain the same information a big part of a literature search in the library is making jumps between different isolated groups of writing, wherein they use different words and approaches to tackle the same problems anyways, we're getting the worst version of what's possible. I'm sure what I've described is out there somewhere but it's likely being used by intelligence agencies and the most expensive consultants. #enshittification
Who wants to own this position while Google moves on from it ? In Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout said, “Posit
Google decided to change the contract with its users unilaterally. Google search will be taking away links to sources and giving AI results, creating a layer between our content and people looking for it. DuckDuckGo can be the company that fills the void, IF they keep the bargain they make with their users.
Google is starting the next attack on the participatory web we all use: ‘Your site, your work no longer matters. We'll only let it be found through our new “personal shopper” AI layer.’
They no longer care about indexing the world’s knowledge. The role of Internet librarian is up for grabs, and is very rewarding.
Google wants to limit access to our information, and are doing so unilaterally. DuckDuckGo can claim a huge part of the user base that values an open web IF they value those users.
Keep the focus on privacy. Expand search results. Do what you say you will.
Build a better search. And the tired ex-Google masses will come.
I seem to have found a way to get rid of google's embarrassing and pathetic inclusion of AI slop in search results.
I used the instructions for Firefox at the link above and it seems to have worked! Here's a copy of them from that page:
Visit TenBlueLinks.org in Firefox.
Right-click on the address bar and choose "Add Google Web".
Open the hamburger menu in the top right corner, choose "Settings -> Search".
In the "Default Search Engine" section choose "Google Web" from the drop-down menu.
Done!
Anachronistic web search....
Today I Learned: Lycos search still exists, and I get pretty good results for technical searches from it. As a bonus it's also a pretty lightweight webpage to use for the job and doesn't have AI results or any of that junk. Bonus fact: Excite search still exists as well! It also seems to give relatively good results in a similarly simple page, but has news on the homepage which costs it a star in my opinion.
Did putting "fucking" in your query stop filtering out A.I-generated articles in DDG? I've started finding bullshit in my results again