• beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip
    29·
    23 hours ago

    A bit besides the point, but I have been thinking about this.

    I currently use duckduckgo. However I have two problems:

    • Most of the results are usually SEO spam
    • The page takes a ton of time to load

    Google also has the first issue (though not nearly as much), and so do all its wrappers.

    The only search engine that made me feel more or less like I was getting decent results was kagi (especially with the fact that I could block and report AI slop and block sites that I don’t like), but that’s just too expensive for me normally.

    What do ya’ll do for search?

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 minutes ago

      Duck uses Bing backend, which is shit at the best of times.
      Everyone who actually uses Kagi swears by it, and I am on the brink of actually trying it.

    • VinegarChunks@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      One of the key selling points of the AI search results is that they bypass the problem of wading through SEO slop. Though I’m sure that is just a matter of time.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Yea, I tried duck duck. I always have to grab Google to get the results i need. I suppose if I was not a power user and in IT that I could take more time to look for results it would work. But for now Google is still king.

    • evadersnack@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I’ve just started blocking SEO slop while using ddg on my main computer. Makes my life easier if it’s just DigitalOcean blogs rather than geeksforgeeks or linuxvox. The latter being full-on ai slop. At least DO/Vultr/whatever actually bothers with content quality because it’s their PaaS.

    • Diurnambule@jlai.lu
      3·
      11 hours ago

      I run an uncensored gemm4 or qwen3. 6, funny thing you can tell them to giva ya result like google search but their is no publicity. Even google gemma4 is relatively helpful to do srarch. And since search are mostly llm now, no change.

    • iocase@lemmy.zip
      132·
      21 hours ago

      I’ve honestly been using Claude or chatgpt for it and specifically asking for sources. But as they get more desperate for money they’re going to start to have paid sponsorships…

      Someday soon:

      Search: “How to boil eggs”

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      1. BBC Good Food – Perfect Boiled Eggs Cooking times, peeling tips, and altitude adjustments.
      1. Reddit – Why do my eggs always crack? “Don’t overcrowd the pot.”
      1. Wikipedia – Egg (food) History, nutrition, and culinary uses.
      1. Amazon 12-piece egg timer set.

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  • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    81·
    1 day ago

    Google uses semantic caching, so if you submit a query that is the same as another query in terms of the AI response, it won’t be generating a new reply each time.

    • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      61·
      20 hours ago

      Yah, why make Google work to de-anonymize my searches when I can just give someone my credit card so they know.