Comment on How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
kbal@fedia.io 11 months ago
I feel like I have a pretty good guess who that unsourced quote from a "bluesky thought leader" might've come from although I've never been on bluesky. Naturally the search engines cannot find its source either, which suggests another reason why they're less useful than they used to be.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
kbal@fedia.io 11 months ago
That you felt the need to use images instead of links exemplifies yet another reason search engines have trouble these days I guess. Interestingly, the search box on bsky.app is also unable to find it when I try from here. Mastodon search is often no better of course, but what with bluesky being completely monolithic and centralized you'd think it'd be easier for them.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I didn’t feel the need to post screenshots for any reason, I just post screenshots. Don’t read too much relevancy into that.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Also, Bluesky only recently made it so posts can be viewed on the website without login, so search engines probably haven’t had time to scrape much of it yet, however that’s determined.