Subj : Re: ChatGPT?
To   : Adept
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Feb 16 2023 08:59:51

  Re: Re: ChatGPT?
  By: Adept to Arelor on Thu Feb 16 2023 11:01 am

 >  Ar> There are web engines designed to supply only sites that are not
 >  Ar> overloaded with ads. SInce auto-generated sites are created for an
 >  Ar> economic incentive, the idea of using these search engines for dodging
 >  Ar> them is sound.
 > 
 > Do you know of an example of an engine that does this?
 > 
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Yes, but they have small indexes.

Search My Site is a FOSS engine with a filter that detects pages with ads and
does not register them.

Wiby is another FOSS engine that attempts to capture the spirit of the old WWW.
It has an indexing mode in which only sites with sane CSS and no bloat are
indexed. The official instance has more flexible rules but it is still devoid
of comercial content.

There is also marginalia, which is still FOSS, but I don't know the rules for
index creation.

If you want to try search engines that use unconventional sorting algorythms,
aren't based on Goole/Bing/Yandex, and have a sizeable index, your only options
are Mojeek and Gigablast, I think.

You can set a Searx instance and configure it to use the indexes you prefer,
combined as you like them. It does not work badly.

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