Pouring one out for the homies

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• beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A bit besides the point, but I have been thinking about this.

  I currently use duckduckgo. However I have two problems:

  • Most of the results are usually SEO spam
  • The page takes a ton of time to load

  Google also has the first issue (though not nearly as much), and so do all its wrappers.

  The only search engine that made me feel more or less like I was getting decent results was kagi (especially with the fact that I could block and report AI slop and sites that I don’t like), but that’s just too expensive for me normally.

  What do ya’ll do for search?

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  • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve honestly been using Claude or chatgpt for it and specifically asking for sources. But as they get more desperate for money they’re going to start to have paid sponsorships…

    Someday soon:

    Search: "How to boil eggs"

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    ⭐ Sponsored

    MEGAFOOT™ Tactical Smart Shoes

    “Boil eggs like a champion by standing near the stove in AI-powered footwear.” ✓ Bluetooth 6.0 ✓ Carbon fiber sole ✓ “Chef Mode” (Premium subscription required) ✓ Financing available from $19.99/month for 84 months

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    2. BBC Good Food – Perfect Boiled Eggs Cooking times, peeling tips, and altitude adjustments.

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    3. Reddit – Why do my eggs always crack? "Don’t overcrowd the pot."

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    4. Wikipedia – Egg (food) History, nutrition, and culinary uses.

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    5. Amazon 12-piece egg timer set.

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    People also ask

    Why are my eggs green around the yolk?

    Can I boil eggs from frozen?

    Can AI shoes improve egg boiling performance?

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    Related searches

    soft boiled eggs

    hard boiled eggs

    egg salad

    best tactical footwear for breakfast enthusiasts

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can I boil eggs from heaven?

      dude did i misread this one

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bing is just a frontend to various Microsoft products.

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  • VinegarChunks@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One of the key selling points of the AI search results is that they bypass the problem of wading through SEO slop. Though I’m sure that is just a matter of time.

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  • 1Malayali@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The page takes a ton of time to load

    Does using uBlock Origin help?

    Or maybe lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=%25s ?
    Or html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%25s

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yea, I tried duck duck. I always have to grab Google to get the results i need. I suppose if I was not a power user and in IT that I could take more time to look for results it would work. But for now Google is still king.

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  • DinosaurOuijaBoard@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    (Here for suggestions. I’ve been feeling the same about DDG and Kagi)

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Duck uses Bing backend, which is shit at the best of times.
    Everyone who actually uses Kagi swears by it, and I am on the brink of actually trying it.

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  • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use searXNG

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  • evadersnack@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve just started blocking SEO slop while using ddg on my main computer. Makes my life easier if it’s just DigitalOcean blogs rather than geeksforgeeks or linuxvox. The latter being full-on ai slop. At least DO/Vultr/whatever actually bothers with content quality because it’s their PaaS.

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    • beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn, this comment made me discover ublacklist. I am definitely going to start using it!

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  • Diurnambule@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I run an uncensored gemm4 or qwen3. 6, funny thing you can tell them to giva ya result like google search but their is no publicity. Even google gemma4 is relatively helpful to do srarch. And since search are mostly llm now, no change.

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• squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The easiest way to search without generating AI overviews is https://noai.duckduckgo.com

  I wish more search engines would implement something like this.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you want to use Google instead of Bing, but don’t want AI slop, set your default search engine to this.

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

    Along with ublock and Firefox, it gives me ad free, ai free, Google search.

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quant, startpage, kagi, btdig, shodan… Lots of good search engines out there still

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• cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google uses semantic caching, so if you submit a query that is the same as another query in terms of the AI response, it won’t be generating a new reply each time.

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• recked_wralph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  arstechnica.com/…/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets…

  You can use something like udm14.org or a browser plugin to force web searches only

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• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The original skit is even better. He asks what color a fire hydrant is and the AI dumps out 3 bottles of water and says, “blue.”

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Use Kagi

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  • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yah, why make Google work to de-anonymize me when I can just give someone my credit card so they know.

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    • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can pay with Bitcoin if you want, and there’s privacy pass. But I thought we were talking about forced AI overviews in search?

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My old homies at stack overflow, ya’ll still be?

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It makes shit up

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