What search engines are people using these days?
For the past decade I've used Startpage or DuckDuckGo. I stopped using Google a long time ago. (Yes, I know SP uses Google results; please don't explain that to me.)
I'm searching for covers of books for slides. In the past, I'd do an image search, in quotes, for the book title. Boom, there are cover images.
Today, no matter what I do, I see loads of obviously SEO-tainted results.
Is this just the case across the board now?
Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Puts Ads Within Features Snippets Named You Might Also Like. “I don’t know if you might also like this, you probably won’t but Bing is dropped ads in their featured answers, featured snippets. They are calling these ads ‘You might also like.'”
Electronic Frontier Foundation: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy.. “Antitrust enforcers have proposed a set of complementary remedies, from giving users a choice of search engine, to forcing Google to spin off Chrome and possibly Android into separate companies. Overall, this is the right approach. Google’s dominance in […]
@danie10 Something came in to my mind:
When #searchengines do not list results from #peertube it is no surprise, that people don't find that content!
I don´t know about others, but I'm using #qwant since long now and they don't. I just messaged them via their contact form about that. Don't know, if anybody ever really thought about that.
Wondering, if @Qwant is official... ^^
I have no idea what’s going on …
I search for “maapl.net” and I get everything except for maapl.net
Is it being blocked my microsoft (DuckDuckGo uses Bing)?
I was able to get to it a few days ago (great search I/F by the way, based on searxing search metaengine/db)
Now, zip! Can’t get to it.
Anyone else not seeing it in their search engines? Does anyone know why?
https://maapl.net
#AI #Search Has A Citation Problem
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
"We Compared Eight AI #SearchEngines. They’re All Bad at Citing #News."
https://thecanadian.social/@mike/114141433777294978
This… is worth considering as an alternative to Bing and Google. Much better results, no freeking marketing and self-serving algorithms here…
@ai6yr Don’t mean to hijack the thread, about search engines, but seems the same goes for browsers.
Many people recommend Vivaldi. A blog post they created just a couple months ago says Vivaldi won’t use ai, but if you look at their new Translate Feature, it’s run by ai. Did they do an about-face? Or am I misunderstanding? Is it a feature you can just turn off? https://vivaldi.com/features/translate/ Not finding many people talking about this.
Ensh**tification
#searchengines #browsers
Anyone here using paid search, such as #Kagi? How’s it going? Are you finding it “worth it”?
#searchEngines
@wikipedia has a nice comparison of #SearchEngines listed in tables. 
"The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as #FreeSoftware or #ProprietarySoftware. The second and third table lists internet #privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a filter bubble)."
Do you use #SearchEngines based in Europe? Which do you prefer?
@ujeenator That certainly seems to be true for most #websites full of AI-generated content that #searchengines have been throwing at me lately ;)
Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content
So i tried Ecosia search engine, because someone was enthousiastic about it.
Only to find out Ecosia nags about using an adblocker...
That's such a no go!
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@lauren When I switched to DuckDuckGo, I often used the !g bang to use Google instead.
Not anymore.
It’s not that DuckDuckGo has improved – it’s that Google has gotten worse.
I don't understand why other search engines still haven't managed to replace Google by catching up to what it was like ten years ago. #DuckDuckGo #Google #SearchEngines #qwant
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️Thanks for the help ref https://fediscience.org/@sbrl/113726310893898548, Fediverse 
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I thought I'd do a poll of some of the suggestions.
Vote will decide the name, tho I will have the final say o/ 
