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Yeah, well... The Internet is dying, basically
With the way things are going, it might fracture into smaller networks or everything might continue to be buried under the sheer weight of slop, making the clear web just propoganda and burying the real content into the deep web
so far my setup using disroot's searxng instance with ublacklist (already mentioned), some recommended blocklists for it, and banger for universal DDG bangs has been extremely non-frustrating (except one crashout i had when ublacklist updated with a method for adding custom search engines which forced me to write a custom entry for disroot that didn't initially work despite it working OOB perfectly fine before that) and my preferred experience. another example of my linux user autism taking over.
but i direct most folks i know to udm14.org since they're unwilling to give up google. :/
I'm in the tech field and its just brutal. I either use a LLM with results I can't at all trust which is exhausting and wastes time or wade through slop which is also exhausting.
I'm tired boss
🙋🏻♂️was also a formed DuckDuckGo user and didn’t like the path they followed onboarding more AI slop, this game me some options
So I tested kagi free, enjoyed it; then finally paid €5 / mo because I enjoyed the results it was returning; not to mention I can downgrade/upgrade sites to filter them out of my search.
uBlacklist is a browser extension that can filter search results from commonly used search engines like Google/DDG. You can use it with Super SEO Spam Suppressor which is a community maintained blocklist targeting SEO/AI spam.
I've been just using more specific/targeted search engines. I put them on a bookmarks page I coded and that's my homepage when I open my browser. And then when I need just a general Google search without ai summary, my new tabs page goes to udm=14. Still not great - but fine when I just need to double check a url or search images.
I highly recommend Wiby and Marginalia for more indie/non-corporate website searches!
Oh also searching directly in Wikipedia when I'm looking up something that might have an entry there (science/history/whatever) that I just need an overview or definition of
Any tips for managing bookmarks with an improved method from… “Autistic heap (corpus) of websites haphazardly chucked into similarly named directories”?
Low-key I wish I knew how to extend the functionality of Firefox or how to write plugins.
Great suggestions for Wiby and Marginalia! I will check those out. What was that service called that lets you download Wikipedia in its entirety? I was thinking of saving a local copy for information archiving purposes.
Qwant became my main third-party search about two months ago.
It's the best free search I've tried so far.
I've been finding that a) google is the fucking worst, most others do better, and b) results on the 2nd and 3rd pages are becoming more and more relevant.
I moved away from google years ago. I was using duckduckgo until they started adding ai BS. So I moved to mojeek and ecosia.
I hate it, i really hate it, but what can we do?
Occasionally I’ll throw my query into Google instead of DDG. If it’s an item on EBay, I used to be able to find it through DDG, but now I most turn to site-specific searching.
Annoying, but I guess infinite convenience of a tool that we expect to work has to grind to a halt to allow for more value to be siphoned by the corporation.
Scholar.google.com is still quite good! And most of the time I want a good paper on a topic, instead of some random person's opinion.
Haven’t used Google Scholar since I was in school, but glad it still works!
Do y'all believe that even a user owned search and scraping platform will have those AI generated websites in the top results?
Would depend on the ranking methodology, instead of ownership
Why do you exactly post this on !autism@lemmy.world
The question is not autism or mental health related.