Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders

• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I still use web search all the time, I just don’t use Google. There are great alternatives:

  • DuckDuckGo
  • Ecosia
  • Marginalia
  • Million Short
  • Swiss Cows

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  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or all of the above, using SearXNG.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do any of them actually work? As in, you search something and it gives you relevant results to the whole thing you typed in?

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    • czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve used DuckDuckGo for a long time, so I would say yes. But the best way to figure that out is just to try it for a while. There is literally nothing to lose.

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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I have been using it for about 7 years and its just as shit.

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s always going to depend on what you’re searching for. I just tried searching for home coffee roasting on Swiss Cows and all of the results were legit, no crappy spam sites.

      Marginalia is great for finding obscure sites but many normal sites don’t show up there. Million Short is a similar idea but with a different approach to achieving it.

      The problem of search is actually extremely hard because there are millions of scam and spam sites out there that are full of ads and either AI slop or literally stolen content from other popular sites. Somehow these sites need to be blocked in order to give good results. It’s a never-ending, always-evolving battle, just like blocking spam in email (I still have to check my spam folder all the time because legit emails end up flagged as spam).

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    DDG and Ecosia are proxies for Bing. I didn’t check, but I’m guessing the others are too. Most “independent” search engines are.

    The major exception is Startpage, which is a proxy for Google.

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Marginalia is not.

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    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Marginalia and Million Short have their own index as far as I know. Fireball is another one being independent from both Google and Bing.

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      startpage is a proxy for google?

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