Post AXATzexWEftaoZVvuK by mahaska@kolektiva.social
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 (DIR) Post #AXATzeE8xNbEXqHhBI by misanthrope@kolektiva.social
       2023-06-24T23:05:27Z
       
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       I hate searching online any longer. I miss the days gone by when you would input a search string and you'd get back results related to what you'd input. Even better were days when you could use search modifiers to be more specific. No, not any longer. Now a search gives you results of what it thinks you want! And this is just some fucking algorithm, this isn't AI bullshit!On top of that, the first 13 pages of links are either shopping you don't want to do (or can't afford) or dodgy websites that want to steal your life. Capitalism at its finest. "you don't really know what you need or want so let us tell you what that is, so you can buy useless shit that we didn't need to manufacture but is still helping us burn this planet to ash. That's what we know you really want. Can we get you a new car, nuclear war, and a migraine with that?"
       
 (DIR) Post #AXATzexWEftaoZVvuK by mahaska@kolektiva.social
       2023-06-24T23:25:36Z
       
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       @misanthrope ATM yet, it doesn't look like Duckduckgo is corrupted by corporate controlled shit. 🤞
       
 (DIR) Post #AXATzfiJQhKH9hPIqO by misanthrope@kolektiva.social
       2023-06-29T01:11:03Z
       
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       @mahaska so, I've been giving DDG another try since we chatted. It's a lot better than it used to be or at least than my memory of it. To the point that I've now installed it on my phone. And I added it as a search option in FF on my computer.I've compared a few searches between DDG and startpage and some of them are pretty similar, whilst other ones are drastically different. I don't know if that's SEO or some other ranking going on in the background or what. Not sure which I'll stick with right now.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXATzgOUtr4PGX8zb6 by mahaska@kolektiva.social
       2023-06-29T01:24:34Z
       
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       @misanthrope I'm interested in the comparison between the app and the website more but that does tell me some things ☺️