Post AXAWKZ2RdvyIRSuisS by shoq@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AX95VF7b8s6Nw5ERDE by geordie@aus.social
2023-06-27T23:37:37Z
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Google is not a search engine anymore. It’s just a portal with featured content. Your search query is just a theme you’d like to loosely filter the content.
(DIR) Post #AX95VHFTEZaUX4vklE by geordie@aus.social
2023-06-27T23:38:57Z
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What’s more fucked, is it’s not entirely Google’s fault. The web that Google indexes is similarly algorithm-optimised featured content in the guise of a discussion or tutorial or journalism. It’s featured content all the way down.
(DIR) Post #AX95VJJRYlxCvynxEO by geordie@aus.social
2023-06-27T23:42:33Z
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Given there's about 15-50 websites that the majority of my investigation of any topic seems to revolve around, I sometimes wonder about the feasibility of having a private search index of those sites using Elastic or something
(DIR) Post #AX980J8kS1UbHhi6lM by Onlineadviser@c.im
2023-06-28T09:44:11Z
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@geordie I hope to read more about what is replacing, or will replace in the near future, our source for pure search information. As a writer and researcher, I have been aware for years that online search results have changed dramatically, and sources that used to be online are no longer available through any normal search tactic. That seems dangerous for all of us.
(DIR) Post #AX99B3OHRngDZtfC7M by ortars@techhub.social
2023-06-28T04:14:56Z
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@geordie Sometimes I miss Altavista. Sure it was bad, but it still occasionally found something useful.
(DIR) Post #AXAWF4n6ftgFBR7flY by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2023-06-27T23:41:21Z
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@geordie Sad admission: I used yahoo's search the other day. First time since the 90s.
(DIR) Post #AXAWFpAmEDwl2AYE2y by Kels_316@aus.social
2023-06-27T23:41:27Z
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@geordie its pointless to search for information now, I just use search to save a few clicks and tell it to search a specific website. I'm sure a lot of people do that.
(DIR) Post #AXAWFpyPFhe5W5lrP6 by geordie@aus.social
2023-06-27T23:43:35Z
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@Kels_316 yeah there was a thing the other day about how many people add reddit.com to their search terms because they want to surface a discussion by actual people about the topic, and Reddit having heaps of dark subs at the moment because of Reddit's bullshit is causing problems
(DIR) Post #AXAWG5H2MiSeyDbS1g by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-06-28T03:39:07Z
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@geordie @Kels_316 Yea, it’s surely one of the more long term interesting dynamics of the fediverse … to reclaim all the shared human information that makes the internet actually valuable and protect it from corporate interference and corruption. To ensure spaces of human interaction are protected.
(DIR) Post #AXAWGON3MZYyCNZ1Xc by Kels_316@aus.social
2023-06-27T23:44:42Z
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@geordie yeah I do this but for stackexchange, github and wikipedia quite a lot. Also twitter to find ancient dril posts, lol.
(DIR) Post #AXAWIUBAjrIqnB0N4S by LevZadov@kolektiva.social
2023-06-28T08:10:16Z
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@Kels_316 @geordie Try DuckDuckGo. Works for me.
(DIR) Post #AXAWJepkbwXk7sXnJg by birdpoof@universeodon.com
2023-06-28T13:08:49Z
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@LevZadov @Kels_316 @geordie I gave DDG a solid attempt for a week but found it just couldn't keep up with what I wanted to search. When trying to find a movie title, for example, both Google and Bing gave the correct results on the first page while DDG flailed. It might be better for certain kinds of searches compared to others, but none of the search engines are particularly great these days.I miss advanced Altavista.
(DIR) Post #AXAWKZ2RdvyIRSuisS by shoq@mastodon.social
2023-06-28T18:02:23Z
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@geordie "Each instance of "sponsored content" that now dominates every result, is basically free ad for Duck Duck Go.