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Has search just become completely extinct? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by deforestgump@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I’ve used DuckduckGo for at least a decade. When they started embedding their little AI summary thing at the top of the chat I knew it was coming. But recently, it seems when I search anything I get tons of the same slop, SEO pumped, AI generated info pages. There was a time when I would at least stumble upon an old HTML article from a university or something. Everything sucks now. Do they even make encyclopedia books anymore?

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[–] DelgadoSlims@hexbear.net 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Use google's verbatim mode. intitle: “index of” is also like a cheat code. In verbatim mode it gets you only documents from publicly available databases and sometimes finds you cool stuff people maybe didn't want to share publicly

example intitle: “index of” /pdf “media literacy”