• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      SearXNG: poor man’s Kagi (one seemingly reputable instance)

      On iOS, I set my default search to DuckDuckGo, and enabled Hyperweb on the DDG domain to redirect to SearXNG. I use a Google Images bookmark saved as a favorite when I need images (SearXNG results inferior even when using Google as the sole engine).

      I anecdotally suspect Kagi of astroturfing btw, but after some free trials it seems to be about the best Google alternative - gotta be [earning like] a [US-based] knowledge worker though, or really care about search.

      • mahhkk@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        I’ve been really liking Kagi. It’s been my default for about 5 months now.

  • Redex@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    To be fair, this could be very make or break for Google. If someone else solves AI search properly, and they can’t catch up, it would be really bad for them. G+/Facebook were another market completely so it wasn’t really taking any of their current market share.

    But I do think they are panicking a bit too much.

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    For a brief moment in the beta for all this, it basically just summarized the top two or three reputable results, and attached a link to where it got the data.

    They should have just left it at that, and not started mixing in random blogs and social media sites.
    The ability to summarize the Wikipedia article and a random university professors page where they list every fact known to man about pine trees or something was actually helpful.

    If I want the AIs best guess about how to fuck up a pizza, I just go to the site where I can ask it. Bad advice when searching is just shit.
    A tldr for “what is turpentine” is actually helpful.

  • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    The difference is that Google+ was actually a wonderful product.

    But a couple years down the line Google did what Google does and destroyed it from the inside making it worse and worse until it was just a shell of what it started out being.

      • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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        5 months ago

        If you were into tech, the tech people were amazing. Yonatan Zunger comes to mind. He was a backend engineer at Google and the guy was great.

        I also met many people who are still friends, many of whom became real life friends too.

        I even got an amazing job thanks to my contacts on g+.

        The feed layout was awesome. The fact that everything got fed to rss. The fact that you could tailor posts so easily. God I miss it. Only social media I’ve ever really been a part of.

        It was wonderful ♥️

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m going to start calling all these bullshit posts as they are.

    They aren’t entertaining. Karma is not even a thing anymore on Lemmy. So why are you lying?

    • Atrichum@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      My understanding is that Google is doing a partial roll out of AI summary so most people don’t have it yet.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        So that pulled out text essentially saying the exact opposite of what the OP screenshot says is not the same thing?

  • maculata@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Trailer Trash be all like: “SEE AH TOLD Y’ALL IT WAS GOOD FOR THE BABY! GOOGLE DONE SAYS SO!!!”