rodhilton, to random
@rodhilton@mastodon.social avatar

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

Google country in africa that starts with the letter k X & @& Q Images South africa Maps News Shopping Books Videos Flights. Finance About 318,000,000 results (0.55 seconds) While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". B Emersent Mind The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" Did you know that there s no countey in . e wen fca e st withche ler 7 sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. & : 1 It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this. & Emergent Mind https://www.emergentmind.com » posts » did-youknow-.. i Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with ... @ Aboutfeatured snippets - J Feedback

Geo,

@rodhilton I tested (which gives the same results like ) and these are the same like . I hope Bing doesn't start to follow with these types of ideas.

BryanGreyson, to Ecosia German
@BryanGreyson@social.tchncs.de avatar

#Ecosia hat die Datenschutzbedingungen aktualisiert.

Explizit weggefallen ist der Teil, dass die letzten zwei Segmente der IP-Adresse "verschleiert" werden.

Stattdessen werden zukünftig explizit Suchbegriffe UND IP-Adresse an Bing und, bei Zustimmung, an Google übermittelt.

Sehr schade, ich halte von Ecosia als Unternehmen viel, aber der Wegfall der "Verschleierung" vor Übertragung ist ein echter Rückschritt.

#Datenschutz

kkarhan,

@BryanGreyson sorry, aber #Ecosia's Versprechen sind bestenfalls Werbemärchen gewesen...

kubikpixel, (edited ) to internet German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Jetzt wo ihr alle auf eine #freie und offene Plattform für #SocialMedia gewechselt seid, das #Fediverse, könnt ihr z.B. bei den #Suchmaschine weiter machen.

🔎 @MetaGer
🔎 @Mojeek
🔎 @monocles
🔎 https://gruble.de

Ne du, so was wie #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage & #Ecosia liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie #Bing (M$) und/oder #Google. Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.

egent07,
@egent07@norden.social avatar

@kubikpixel @MetaGer @Mojeek @monocles Ergänze um #DuckDuckGo und (unter Vorbehalt) #Ecosia

heiseonline, to android German

Firefox soll auch unter Android bald beliebige Erweiterungen unterstützen

Noch in diesem Jahr soll Firefox unter Android die Installation beliebiger Erweiterungen ermöglichen. Die Infrastruktur dafür sei gebaut worden.

https://www.heise.de/news/Firefox-soll-auch-unter-Android-bald-beliebige-Erweiterungen-unterstuetzen-9243341.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

Speckdaene,
@Speckdaene@nrw.social avatar
18+ matt, to Ecosia
@matt@oslo.town avatar

Like, okay, I get it. You need to make money... but come on. This is way too many ads, #Ecosia.

matt,
@matt@oslo.town avatar

@jantzen Yes! Thanks for the recommendation. I was subscribed to #Kagi for a while, but decided to stick with #Ecosia (for now) because they plant trees with their profits.

🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳

matt,
@matt@oslo.town avatar

@Nangpa Between this, and adding AI Chat, #Ecosia are ruining their own product.

bitprophet, to random
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

lmao, signed into #Kagi in order to cancel my subscription, and they're having such severe technical issues that I can't even do that right now 😂

In their defense, this is literally the first time in 6+ months I've ever encountered any tech issues with them.

But it's funny timing!

bitprophet,
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

#Kagi’s back & I've canceled my sub. Have 1 week to find a #search replacement:

  • #Google, if I get super desperate, lolno.
  • #DuckDuckGo, always the obvious "not Google" choice; but ISTR them having their own ethical quandaries? & are "just Bing"? Brief trial "feels good” tho, need to dig more.
  • #Ecosia sounds like a nice idea, but is probably just greenwashing?
  • #Marginalia is cool but not quite the same level as Goog/DDG/Kagi, too narrowly focused to be a catchall.
  • What else?
aldi80s, to Ecosia
@aldi80s@mastodon.social avatar

Made a post about searching engines, since I like so much because it displays lot of images, but wondered if there were another option that could be better than Ecosia. Someone mentioned . I tried and found out that's the best one I used lately!

Vivaldi, (edited ) to random
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar

#DataPrivacyWeek Day 4

#Surveillance by #BigTech companies poses a big threat to our privacy.

In light of this, switching to a #privacy-friendly search engine is a quick and easy way to help you keep your online experience private. 🔒

What is your preferred privacy-oriented #SearchEngine? Do you use different ones for regular and private searches?

byogesh,

@Vivaldi #Ecosia deserves more love 🥺

vv666, to wordpress French
@vv666@mastouille.fr avatar

Rigolo, d'après #Jetpack, célèbre plugin de #Wordpress, #Qwant et #ecosia ne sont pas des moteurs de recherche ... 🤔

#web #moteurderecherche

parsa, to DuckDuckGo

I changed my default search engine from #DuckduckGo to #Ecosia .

parsa, to Ecosia

A 'Green' Search Engine Sees Danger—and Opportunity—in the Generative AI Revolution
#Ecosia

https://www.wired.com/story/search-engine-ecosia-generative-ai-revolution/

MIfoodie, to Ecosia
@MIfoodie@vivaldi.net avatar
aldi80s, to internet
@aldi80s@mastodon.social avatar

I like to search images over the and I've been trying different search engines and I find that may be the best option. I noticed that there are much more displayed than the others. Am I right? Is Ecosia the best one or are there others?

flip, to Ecosia

I'm dumbfounded to find Ecosia's new 'AI Chat' feature. Surely, they must know how unsustainable AI is? Am I the only that feels this way?

#Ecosia #Environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

nolesdescasito, to ChatGPT Spanish
@nolesdescasito@mstdn.social avatar

Una consulta en #ChatGPT consume tres veces más energía que una consulta en #Google.
Pensemos si realmente necesitamos preguntar tanto a sistemas de IA o si ya tenemos tecnologías menos costosas. 🙏

astrojuanlu,
@astrojuanlu@social.juanlu.space avatar
rafa_font, to Bulgaria
@rafa_font@mastodon.online avatar

Judita reads about the EU “Digital Services Act" definition of some online platforms as “gatekeepers”

“One more word of #EU slang. As a user, do I need all this regulation?”

She closed #Chrome on her #Android phone, turned to her #Windows laptop, opened 3 tabs: for #WhatsApp, #LinkedIn and #Gmail. She received a video link, and opened #YouTube. Her #Instagram account blipped

She stopped for a second. She had just used 7 of the 11 #gatekeepers apps...

Continues here:

https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen

rafa_font,
@rafa_font@mastodon.online avatar

Also, three areas in which European products might need a push:

THE SEARCH - Ecosia, a non-profit, green corp. Every 50 searches, they plant a tree. Uses Bing engine.

THE BROWSER - @Vivaldi a Norwegian competitor of Google. Selling point: "we don't track you"

THE CLOUD - OVH and Hetzner offer virtual servers, but still go short on cloud native services

From: https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen

#Ecosia #Vivaldi #OVH #Hetzner #EuropeanTech

simsus, to Ecosia German
@simsus@social.tchncs.de avatar
kubikpixel, to Ecosia German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Die Suchmaschine Bing, jetzt mit KI, ist momentan scheinbar überbelastet und deswegen down:
👉 https://allestörungen.ch/stoerung/bing/

Doch die Auswirkung ist mehr als nur bei ihnen, auch bei "alternativen" Suchmaschinen, die Bing im Hintergrund nutzen:

  • Ecosia
  • Duck Duck Go
  • Start Page
  • Dog Pile
  • Swiss Cows
  • ...

🔎 Was als zufärlässige Alternative genutzt werden kann, seht ihr in meiner Timeline.

#suchmaschine #bing #ecosia #ki #duckduckgo #startpage #dogpile #swisscows #kunstlicheintelligenz #internet

kubikpixel, (edited )
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

🧵 …die alternative Suchmaschinen, zu den oben erwähnten jetzige Panne bei Bing und deren abhängigen Internet Suchmaschinen, hatte ich schon länger mal getootet. Die zwei, die für mich (momentan) Alternativen sind, habe ich hier mal hingewiesen und verlinkt 🔎

:mastodon: https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/111889141579341596
:mastodon: https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/111902156724799417


#suchmaschine #bing #ecosia #ki #duckduckgo #startpage #dogpile #swisscows #kunstlicheintelligenz #internet #google #searxng #stract

kubikpixel,
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

🧵 …ach guck, nun ist es in der Presse, was ich vorhin oben erwähnte mit den Hinweis zu nutzbaren Alternativen (nicht Google!):

»Bing, DuckDuckGo und weitere Suchmaschine nicht erreichbar:
Einige Suchmaschinen, die nicht Google sind, funktionieren derzeit nicht. Betroffen sind Bing, DuckDuckGo und Ecosia.«

🔎 https://www.heise.de/news/Bing-DuckDuckGo-und-weitere-Suchmaschine-nicht-erreichbar-9729489.html


#suchmaschine #bing #ecosia #ki #duckduckgo #startpage #dogpile #swisscows #kunstlicheintelligenz #internet #google

Bossito, to firefox Portuguese

Usei o 🦊 durante anos, já nem me lembro porque me mudei para o Chrome. Estou agora a tentar fazer o caminho inverso. Muito simples, instalar e passar os dados para lá. Tudo suave.

PS: Estranhamente vem com o Google como motor predefinido, mudei para o PatoPatoVai a ver se ganho o hábito. Pensando melhor vou mudar para o , sempre se plantam umas árvores.

matt, to Ecosia
@matt@oslo.town avatar

Oh no. The #searchEngine that plants trees, #Ecosia, have smashed #OpenAI’s chat feature into its product. 🫠

matt,
@matt@oslo.town avatar

I’m sure the #Ecosia 🌱 folk think they’re keeping pace with #BigTech by also serving #AI chat but really this is probably just an expensive way to waste your money.

tomasekeli,
FabianLaasch, to Ecosia German
@FabianLaasch@mastodon.green avatar

Hab die letzten Wochen intensiv #Ecosia genutzt. Ich muss leider sagen, dass die Suchergebnisse bei weitem nicht mit #Google mithalten können. 😕

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