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Idk how anyone searches the internet anymore. Search engines all turn up so I ask an AI. Maybe one out of 20 times it turns up what I'm asking for better than a search engine. The rest of the time it runs me in circles that don't work and wastes hours. So then I go back to the search engine and find what I need buried 20 pages deep.
I pay for Kagi search. It’s amazing
I do too. Its pretty good but I feel not as good as search engines used to be. Though through no fault of its own. I just think garbage sites have paid for SEO and clog up results no matter what.
I usually skip the AI blurb because they are so inaccurate, and dig through the listings for the info I'm researching. If I go back and look at the AI blurb after that, I can tell where they took various little factoids, and occasionally they'll repeat some opinion or speculation as fact.
At least fuck duck go is useful for video games specifically, but that one more or less just copy pasted from the wiki, reddit, or a forum shits the bed with EUV specifically though.
This is the one time in all of human history where autocorrecting "fuck" to "duck" would've been correct.
Worst part is I'm pretty sure it autocorrected duck to fuck cause I've poisoned my phones autocorrect with many a profanities.
Usually the blurb is pure opinion.
It's fucking awful isn't it. Summer day soon when i can be arsed I'll have to give one of the paid search engines a go.
I'm currently on qwant but I've already noticed a degradation in its results since i started using it at the start of the year.
The paid options arnt any better. When the well is poisoned it doesn't matter if your bucket is made of shitty rotting wood, or the nicest golden vessel to have graced the hands of a mankind.
Your getting lead poisoning either way. You just get to give away money for the privilege with one and the other forces the poisoned water down your throat faster.
Agreed. And the search engines returning AI generated pages masquerading as websites with real information is precisely why I spun up a searXNG instance. It actually helps a lot.
I've asked it for a solution to something and it gives me A. I tell it A doesn't work so it says "Of course!" and gives me B. Then I tell it B doesn't work and it gives me A...
I feel like I go through the whole alphabet of options before giving up and rtfming.