Pouring one out for the homies
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
MemesIt makes shit up
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 block sites that I don't like), but that's just too expensive for me normally.
What do ya'll do for search?
(Here for suggestions. I've been feeling the same about DDG and Kagi)
Use Kagi
The easiest way to search without generating AI overviews is https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I wish more search engines would implement something like this.
If you want to use Google instead of Bing, but don't want AI slop, set your default search engine to this.
https://google.com/search?udm=14&q=%25s
Along with ublock and Firefox, it gives me ad free, ai free, Google search.
doesn’t ecosia use google these days? may be better
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.
My old homies at stack overflow, ya’ll still be?
