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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (www.404media.co)
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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 107 points 3 months ago (5 children)

http://tenbluelinks.org/.

Will cut the AI results out of your google searches by switching the browser's default to the web api..

I cannot tell you how much I love it.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 99 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or better yet, ditch Google altogether.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 29 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I switched to Startpage, an EU-based search engine.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not EU based, and not free, but I’ve been loving Kagi.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 6 points 3 months ago

Seconding Kagi, it’s worth every penny.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, I'm glad. That being said, Startpage is a search engine located in the Netherlands that you can start using now. Just go to the site. Kagi is paid.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yes! Startpage rocks hard. I wish Safari would let it be the default search engine (FF does with a simple plug in).

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I've been using startpage, but doesn't it still rely on google results somehow?

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Startpage! No shit. Used to be Ixquick, and I used that for years. Great site - thank you for reminding me it's still there. :)

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For Firefox on Android (which TenBlueLinks doesn't have listed) add a new search engine and use these settings:

Name: Google Web

Search string URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

~~as @Saltarello@lemmy.world learned before I did, strip the number 25 from the string above so it looks more like this:~~

~~www .google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14~~

~~Edit: Lemmy/Voyager formats this string with 25 at the end. Remove the 25 & save it as a browser search engine~~

~~EDIT: There's got to a Markdown option for disabling markdwon auto-formatting links, right?? The escape backslash seems to not be working for this specifically.~~

EDIT II: Found a nasty hack that does the trick!

https[]()://www.example.com/search?q=%s

appears as:

https://www.example.com/search?q=%s

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy also does code markup with `text`

https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s&udm=14

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Indeed, @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone, like so!:

Markup code techniques with triple backticks and new lines or single backticks without any spacings/new lines

Edit, oh is it buggy with parameters per downthread? Interesting

[–] Regna@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Thank you.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

Oh thank you I’ve been looking for this

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I would like to say Google is still better at finding search results with more than one word. For example, if somebody searches "santa claus porn" then DuckDuckGo or Ecosia will probably return images of porn or images of santa claus instead of images of santa claus porn.

However that is no longer true either, because google search continues to get worse all the time. So it's like there isn't any good search engines anymore.