The power of URL parameters lets you unofficially turn off Google’s AI Overview.
  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Lots of talk about which search engine to use; surprisingly little talk about extensions.

    Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is my personal recommendation. Whichever SE you use, when you see a result that’s AI slop or a garbage website like Forbes, just add bullshit.com to the filter, set to hide, and you’ll never see that trash in a search result ever again.

    Be diligent about it for a good week or so, and your search result quality will absolutely explode, whether your using Google, DDG, or several others.

  • TotalCasual@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Google search engine is much worse than it used to be and seems to be getting worse.

    udm=14 doesn’t seem to improve Google search results by a significant margin.

    Bing and DuckDuckGo seem to perform better than Google at present.

    Google itself is failing. I’m not going to speculate why.

    uBlacklist is my current extension for removing spam results.

    • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Which other trustworthy search engines are there? And I don’t mean some different frontend or a meta search engine like ddg, sp, kagi, searx(ng), etc… that mostly just use googles, bings or even yandex and beidu results?

      Ages ago I configured and hosted yacy for myself, but that was a different time… Are there any real alternatives? With mayor internet companies like cloudflare, social media sites and many others restricting the access to the net and information, searching becomes more and more impossible if you aren’t a huge corporation…

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Searx is fancy about it though, It queries everybody and gives you the results that came back from multiple places. This effectively eliminates ads, AI, and unless they all missed it, spam.

        • cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I have nothing against any meta search engine, they are very useful, and I use them primarily as well.

          However, they are not a true alternative, because they depend on third-party services. The same as Invidious is a very useful, but also not an alternative to YouTube itself, just a different user interface.

    • zingo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I stopped using Whoogle (Privacy engine using Google search) because of the bad search results. Google’s fault of course.

      Trying SearxNG now.

      • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Same with startpage because google indexing becoming horrible.
        But I have some cons. with searxng, earch quality becomes horrible when adding too much sources, and I decided to go with ddg.

      • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        And it’s probably India which has the most English speakers in the world (counting it as native, second or third language)

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        Is it just me or is this response the wrong response? I would have expected:

        not everyone speaks bri’ish english

        (that missing “r” in “ameican” inspires the use of the “improper” option here). It’s American English that uses “tire”, after all, and the rest of the Anglosphere that has “tyre”.