Vivaldi, to environment
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar

🌎 Earth Day is an important reminder to commit to big or small sustainable practices that can help preserve our planet. 🌱

We can all contribute in someway.

On that note, meet our colleague @Hlini , at our data center in Iceland powered by renewable, hydroelectric energy✨

One way you can contribute is through your choice of search engine on the Vivaldi browser.

The Ecosia search engine plants trees in over 35 countries with local organisations.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/plant-trees-with-your-browser/

ianonymous3000, to privacy
@ianonymous3000@mastodon.social avatar

Comparing search results for 'fide candidates 2024 standings' on private search engines:

@brave - Good overall results, including live tournament standings. The AI summarizer provides a helpful overview.

@duckduckgo - Relevant results from major chess sites. No obvious advantages over others.

@StartpageSearch - Decent results, but feel a bit more scattered/less focused than Brave.

@Mojeek - Great to see the new summary feature! Results are solid too.

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Cambion, to privacy
@Cambion@mastodon.nl avatar

Thank you @Mojeek for the stickers! You've officially been added to my worklaptop's lid of good tools to use, for all colleagues and workrelations to see!

triskelion, to privacy
@triskelion@floss.social avatar

I'm really disappointed with DuckDuckGo lately. It has been enshittified by adding the new AI feature and search quality has been deteriorated, so I don't trust them anymore. I'm thinking of switching to searXNG, but I'm not interested in self-hosting. So looking for trustworthy public instance which has strict no-log policy, any suggestions?

#Privacy #SearchEngine #searXNG

ScottStarkey, to DuckDuckGo
@ScottStarkey@hoosier.social avatar

I was trying to figure out what actually meant. Sadly, is becoming much more susceptible to .

I'm afraid if I want a real , I may have to have to pay for it with .

I'm still a little fuzzy about what "Eid Mubarak" means, but I think it means essentially "Happy Holidays" to those who are participating in the feast at the end of the month of Ramadan. So, if that's you, Eid Mubarak!

balamaqab, to ai
@balamaqab@mastodon.social avatar

“If I'm looking for news, I want something I can trust, something with an ounce of journalistic rigor”

—AI cannot and should not replace search
https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/ai-cannot-and-should-not-replace-search/

ncrav, (edited ) to random
@ncrav@mas.to avatar

Looking for search engines that actually return anything relevant without having to comb through low quality/generated content or ads (so not Google/Bing ranked). Plus if it doesn't "hides" forums et al 🙄 Which one would you recommend based on experience?
Boost for reach 🥰

mjgardner, to ai
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

I just realized that “prompt engineering” is just SEO (“ optimization”) in reverse.

spams unique language into specific content in hopes of raising the latter’s rank when querying a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm.

spams unique language into a query against a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm in hopes of returning specific content.

daoud, to opensource
@daoud@toot.wales avatar

We're now tracking how many unique URLs we have in the index!

https://mwmbl.org/stats/

CharlieMcHenry, to random
@CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us avatar

Feedle: A search engine for blogs and podcasts - Find what you are looking for across millions of blog posts and podcast episodes.

https://feedle.world/

justincroser, to opensource
@justincroser@fosstodon.org avatar

Your thoughts on this?

In private search we only have Brave and Duck Duck Go the later have been caught selling data but this seems shady especially number 2 and number 3 😬

Starting to question brave and some of their motives.

  1. Support private, independent search
  2. See search results ad-free
  3. Get a cleaner view on all results pages

sirber,
@sirber@fosstodon.org avatar

@justincroser I wish they're was a engine not based on or that's not 😅

toflar, to php German
@toflar@phpc.social avatar

Pretty important fix for my loupe, this should improve your results when searching for terms that do not exist in your index at all :) https://github.com/loupe-php/loupe/releases/tag/0.6.3

bespacific, to ai
@bespacific@newsie.social avatar

#Gartner Predicts #SearchEngine Volume Will Drop 25% by 2026, Due to #AI #Chatbots and Other Virtual Agents. Tech #Marketing Tactics to be Discussed at the Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Conference, March 20-21 in Grapevine, Texas https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-02-19-gartner-predicts-search-engine-volume-will-drop-25-percent-by-2026-due-to-ai-chatbots-and-other-virtual-agents

orbitalmartian, to random
@orbitalmartian@alpha.polymaths.social avatar

What search engine do you use/recommend?

Trying to find a good one, currently using Ecosia which is great but looking for a change.

kuketzblog, to random German
@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de avatar

Die Suchmaschine STRACT macht auf den ersten Blick einen guten Eindruck. Gerne mal testen und Feedback einreichen. 👇

https://stract.com/

jbzfn, to privacy
@jbzfn@mastodon.social avatar

🔎 This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
— 404media.co

“Most of our searches go through the same handful of entities (Google, Bing, Yandex),” Denker told me. “Even other search engines such as DuckDuckGo use Bing for their results. I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build.”

https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

Lokjo, to Bulgaria
@Lokjo@mstdn.social avatar

Europe is building it's own searchengine!

Looking at all the ridiculously big fines the US ones have collected for wrong-doing in europe, this is a great and welcome alternative.

Ah, they're on Fedi too! https://suma-ev.social/@openwebsearcheu

read more about it here: https://openwebsearch.eu/

daoud, to github
@daoud@toot.wales avatar

We're gradually removing our dependency on closed source software, in this case M$: source code is now mirrored on at https://codeberg.org/mwmbl/mwmbl 🎉

Unfortunately we can't move off just yet as we rely on it for people to find our project... but we plan to one day!

hryggrbyr, to random
@hryggrbyr@fedia.social avatar
mitexleo, to opensource

The search engine I was looking for. Check it out !

Go to: https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

mitexleo,

Special thanks to @404mediaco for publishing newsletter about stract. Otherwise I would've never known about this cool project.

jessdkant, to LGBT
@jessdkant@kolektiva.social avatar

Search engines play an enormous role in shaping our perception of the world, and mounting evidence questions whether that role is a good one. Anyone who regularly searches for news using terms related to trans people can see that something is happening.
#LGBT #LGBTQ #Transgender #Trans #MediaStudies #SEO #SearchEngine #News #Propaganda
https://jessk.org/blog/anatomy-of-a-moral-panic

freeschool, to random
@freeschool@qoto.org avatar

Search WITHOUT GOOGLE https://www.SearX.org/

List of instances here: https://searx.space/

bertold, to ai
Norobiik, to Ukraine
@Norobiik@noc.social avatar

’s popular army chief Valery was called to a meeting at the president’s office on Monday and told he was being fired, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN, following weeks of growing speculation over tensions between Volodymyr and his top commander.

A formal announcement has not been made, however, a presidential decree is expected by the end of the week.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/europe/zaluzhny-oust-ukraine-army-zelensky-intl/index.html

Back toot: https://noc.social/@Norobiik/111849298084839383

Norobiik,
@Norobiik@noc.social avatar

reached an agreement to sell its Russian business, including the nation’s most popular , for about $5.2 billion, the highest-valued deal yet to exit following the invasion of .

The divorce, which took more than a year to negotiate, opens the way for to develop some projects abroad after divesting Russian units that had generated most of its revenue.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-05/yandex-parent-cuts-ties-to-russia-in-5-2-billion-unit-sale

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