• FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
    14·
    1 天前

    This is the most accurate, definitive AI experience I’ve ever seen captured.

    It will do everything but the thing it was designed for, and you have to sudo brute force it in order to actually gain any utility out of it lol

  • wbrianwhite@lemmy.zip
    5·
    23 小时前

    I wasn’t sure - it does really work when you try it. 10 results, and… NO ADS even. This is a great hack to get Google back

    • SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml
      21·
      1 天前

      I’ve been using Startpage and loving the results mostly. There’s a big section at the top of most searches that bugs me though. It’s like an alternative search query written several different ways, but I have to scroll past it every single search.

      • ClownStatue@piefed.socialEnglish
        181·
        2 天前

        See, old “Don’t be evil” Google would’ve put a hidden thing here to return something like “Error 6900: Internet Not Found” with a cozy little image of a person stepping outside their house into the sunshine with lush green ground beneath their feet and a helpful puppy or kitten guiding their way. They’d even have gone so far as to require that you clear out your cookies/cache and restart your browser to regain the ability to go to any websites, including theirs.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
        1·
        42 分钟前

        There is though. Kagi.

        It’s paid though, so the masses will eat from a privacy invading fascist honeypot trough instead.

      • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.socialEnglish
        164·
        2 天前

        What internet do you live in?

        I use Duck duck go at work and Qwant (European) privately.

        Both are infinitely better than Google and They’re only my preferred ones, there are dozens out there.

        • placebo@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          1 天前

          DDG and Ecosia use Bing, so depending on why you want to ditch Google, it’s hardly a real alternative (to big tech). Qwant is slow and shows far less results. I still have to go to Google for some queries.

        • angrystego@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 天前

          I do the same, but at times I use Ecosia instead of Qwant. The results are borderline unusable, just like in case of Google - too many commercial links, disrespect for the exact expressions I use or their proximity in text. If something is called similar to a product… So I find these search engines similar to Google, I use them to avoid Google, not to get better results. When image searching, I sometimes go back to Google when I don’t get enough results - Google usually finds more.

      • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 天前

        Less of a bad thing is still a win.

        I use DDG and everytime the results are bad I go back to Google. That happens like 1 out of 10 of all my searches. It’s kinda cumbersome but whatever, I got used to it.

        And now with what’s going on with the forced AI, it seems I’m stuck with what DDG has to offer.

        • farfalla@jlai.luEnglish
          3·
          1 天前

          many go

          And you can do !g search_term for this 1/10 time, not so cumbersome in the end

      • plutopos@lemmy.zip
        45·
        1 天前

        Startpage is one example. Almost every non-professional piece of software has good alternatives

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      564·
      2 天前

      Here is another tip: use DuckDuckGo and get useful results and stop feeding the Google Dragon altogether

      • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
        341·
        2 天前

        I’ve had a problem lately where DDG just returns AI generated articles on topics instead of any real resources. It’s not their fault, per se, since it’s just a wrapper for Bing, but it’s pretty lousy.

        If I know what to expect, then it’s fine, but if I’m genuinely looking for something new, it’s increasingly frustrating

          • ignirtoq@feddit.onlineEnglish
            16·
            2 天前

            No I think they mean the linked webpages in the results are websites entirely generated by AI that Bing search has indexed. I’ve noticed this, too, especially looking for guides or help with very niche topics. It’s incredibly frustrating that not just the search engines but the web itself is filling up with AI slop.

            • ElectricTrombone@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 小时前

              That’s exactly what has been happening with me I’ve noticed. DDG does it too. The top results are AI articles filled with useless filler words with no extra relevance to what I’m actually looking for. It’s just the internet filling with slop. I need a search engine that doesn’t give extra weight to these types of websites and actually gets me relevant guides, forums, posts, etc.

            • Thymos@discuss.tchncs.de
              3·
              2 天前

              Oh like that, yeah, then that link won’t help either. I’ve had that happen a few times as well, or maybe only noticed it a few times. It’s very frustrating indeed.

              • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
                2·
                1 天前

                I find it’s primarily an issue when looking for information about products. Listicles have always been a pain, but now entire websites show up just to summarize every category of product without adding meaningful review or input.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
          151·
          2 天前

          I’m using Kagi so I can report those sites as AI and have them filtered out for the rest of the community.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        24·
        2 天前

        They specifically said if you have to use Google. I have set my default search engine to ddg on every device and prefer to never touch Google but I run into searches not uncommonly which I know should be pretty easy to find, but ddg just falls over on. Google almost always comes through on those. I hate Google and think their search engine keeps getting worse, but it still has a practical use.

    • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 天前

      What are the odds this will still work next week after Google allegedly plans to completely kill the search function and just serve up AI hallucinations whenever you try to look anything up?

    • SystemDisc@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 天前

      I appreciate all the suggestions here, because I’ve been using Google and getting really annoyed by the AI overview. At first glance it seems useful, but it’s frequently just plain wrong or very misleading.

      I think I’m going to just drop Google altogether, even though I’ve been using it pretty much as long as it existed. I remember first finding out about it when my dad worked at Kodak way back in the day.

  • istdaslol@feddit.org
    1032·
    2 天前

    Or, if you want, you can use a real search engine and therefore vote with your data against this change

  • Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zipEnglish
    416·
    2 天前

    I googled it, and for others who don’t understand the word salad in the title, “RP” means “role play.”

    • TJA!@sh.itjust.works
      457·
      2 天前

      I googled it, and for others who don’t understand the word salad, it’s is a dish of mixed ingredients, typically including vegetables, fruits, grains, or proteins. It is usually served cold or at room temperature, often tossed in a sauce or dressing.