jikodesu, to Philippines
@jikodesu@mastodon.social avatar

Google PH says "SIM registration" was the most searched in news in the country. The top 3 most searched shows or series were K-drama "Duty After School," Filipino drama "Maria Clara at Ibarra," and another K-drama "Moving."

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/12/21/2320394/sim-registration-most-searched-news-philippines-2023-google

Andrew, to Podcast

Whew, I listened to 200+ hours of podcasts in the past year.







My top podcasts by hours listened, including: Vergecast - 86.9 hours Search Engine - 18.7 Freakonomics - 11.1 Today Explained - 10.1 Planet Money - 9.7

osf, to random German
@osf@suma-ev.social avatar

⭐️ OpenSearch | Day 17
One more alternative to brighten up your 3rd Advent Sunday.

Let us introduce , a search engine that – like the name suggests – focuses on often overlooked non-commercial search results.

Marginalia-Facts:
➡️ Index used: Own crawler
➡️ Based in: Sweden
➡️ Mobile app: No
➡️ Special Features:

An encyclopedia, a website explorer, a similar website finder application

Go give this search engine a go. Ho ho ho!

si_irini, to random German
@si_irini@mastodon.social avatar

@MaJ1
@HistoPol
@mina
@evelynefoerster

Help me out, friends.
threads is at the Fedi.

I'm wondering if I should block the entire instance...
With what I'm writing, I can't accept stupid and malicious comments, which would be fatal for some people...and we know how users are on other platforms.
🧵

HistoPol, (edited )
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@si_irini
You really ought to read article again.
Massive data extraction through has been happening for years:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111575306870943698

The only real defense is complete anonymity and deleting old posts after a week or so (the latter being unacceptable to me.)

Someone has been creating a meta- for the . He respects (and something else.)

Don't recall the name @ present.

@OlDude82 @mina @evelynefoerster @MaJ1

arnan, to php

If you're looking for a more private or nuisance free search experience, consider

You can host it yourself on any basic that does .

Available for here: https://github.com/adegans/Goosle

00Aaron, to DuckDuckGo
@00Aaron@social.coop avatar

In terms of recent page indexing & news searches, unfortunately only Google holds the monopoly.

In looking for this news article on Grist that appeared in my news reader ("Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves"), search, , and all failed to pull up the article, but did.

This use case is very common for me, so I would love if a competed with Google on this. For now, I have to use Google for news searches.

A screenshot of a DuckDuckGo news search for "grist gas stoves", where the first article in the list a different article on Grist on MSN, from one day ago. No results show the article published for hours prior, which I was looking for
A screenshot of a Microsoft Bing news search for "grist gas stoves", where the first article in the list a different article on Grist on MSN, from one day ago. No results show the article published for hours prior, which I was looking for
A screenshot of a Brave news search for "grist gas stoves", where the first article in the list a different article from New York Times from April. No results show the article published for hours prior, which I was looking for

toplesstopics, to SEO
@toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe avatar

Are there any recommendations that are good at filtering out crap, like when a pop up ad-laden "blog" post robotically repeats search terms over and over?

Vivaldi, to iOS
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar

Our latest update brought you the ability to choose a different for your Standard and Private tabs!

Just go to the Vivaldi menu > Settings > Search Engine > Private Tab, and choose one of our -focused options! 🔎

Your , your business. 😎

shrikant, to internet
@shrikant@noc.social avatar

Just realize how much my habits have shifted.

Earlier, I'd open DDG and type in my search query.

These days, I open a query in , duplicate the tab to use '!g' and '!yt' to search and , ask and for ideas to refine my search, also look on and , and I still feel like I might have missed out...

Google is the new Lycos or Altavista. DDG is AskJeeves, I guess.

Time for a new , I guess. Maybe, a mashup/aggregator? 🤔

nitpicking, to DuckDuckGo
@nitpicking@mstdn.party avatar

This page comes up if I search for '"stable diffusion" Radeon linux': /vectorlinux.com/stable-diffusion-radeon/

(https removed to not add to the page's search rank, currently top on DDG).

It's fake, almost certainly machine-generated. It swaps my search keywords into some generic text, e. g. "One of the standout features of the Stable Diffusion Radeon is its impressive processing power."

Is DuckDuckGo hacked?

itnewsbot, to firefox
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO - Enlarge / Mitchell Baker, Mozilla CEO, at a conference in 2019. (credi... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1980651

bibliogadda, to random Italian
@bibliogadda@poliversity.it avatar

#OpenVerse è un #MotoreDiRicerca multilingue per oltre 700 milioni di immagini e file audio con licenza #CreativeCommons: https://openverse.org/it Con Openverse, gli utenti possono trovare, condividere, remixare e attribuire facilmente le opere con licenza CC in tutto il web. #SearchEngine #conoscenza #scuola @macfranc @alessandrov @maupao @mcp

nebyoolae, to Podcast
@nebyoolae@masto.neb.host avatar

If you were a fan of , the podcast, you will probably be a fan of .

The latest episode (as of today) is a conversation between PJ Vogt and Ezra Klein about using the Internet sanely in the year 2023, and it was fascinating.

https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/how-do-i-use-the-internet-now

khad, to DuckDuckGo
@khad@mastodon.social avatar

It's only a single example, but I find it indicative of the results I get using https://kagi.com as my primary .

Out of 4 engines (, , , and ), only Kagi gave me a result that was a review of someone actually using a microphone with a jogging stroller – and it was the top result. The others are basically just a jumble of unrelated microphone and reviews.

Got my family subscription, Kagi. Let's go!

Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search results for “microphone for jogging stroller”. The top results are “Best Running Strollers of 2023” from Runner’s World, images, and “7 Best Jogging Strollers of 2023” from Good Housekeeping.
Screenshot of Google search results for “microphone for jogging stroller”. The top results are “The 3 Best USB Microphones of 2023” from The New York Times (Wirecutter), a bunch of questions”People also ask” about microphones being worth it, and Kidrunner (a hands-free jogging stroller that honestly does look pretty cool but only if you run on flat, perfectly maintained sidewalks, which is not my reality).
Screenshot of Bing search results for “microphone for jogging stroller”. The top results are “Best Running Strollers of 2023” from Runner’s World and a bunch of random info pulled from … maybe that page? It’s unclear. Way at the bottom and continuing “below the fold”, there is the beginning of an “Explore Further” list of more links to “best jogging stroller” listicles.

khad,
@khad@mastodon.social avatar

Oh, and I also tested because I find it a very interesting entrant in the space. Sadly, the results for this particular query were really, really bad – almost exclusively SEO junk as far as I can tell.

voxel, to privacy

Did you know..?

DuckDuckGo has two non-javascript versions of their search engine and both of them are very lightweight, especially the lite version.

You can access them via:

Html: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html

Lite: https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

@privacyguides

davidism, to DuckDuckGo
@davidism@mas.to avatar

I've been seeing a lot of Python folks talk about https://kagi.com search lately. I currently use Duck Duck Go, and I'm interested in trying Kagi. Are there any others I should look at as well? I don't mind paid if it does a good job, but it would be nice to have something I can get other people to try easily too.

ct_bergstrom, to random
@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org avatar

I wanted to consolidate a few thoughts on google, misinformation, large language models, enshittification, and the fate of the web as we know it.

It started when Carl Zimmer shared this remarkable example of Google being fooled by machine-generated bullshit online.

gunchleoc,
@gunchleoc@mastodon.scot avatar

@artfulrobot I use https://metager.org/

It's a meta that does not track you and tells you which search engines the results came from.

BWPanda, to DuckDuckGo
@BWPanda@fosstodon.org avatar

Decided to try @Mojeek as my default (switching from ). I like that they have their own crawler, instead of just using 's results. Let's see how this goes...

doboprobodyne, to technology in How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - WIRED

Nice to see hamstring themselves; they're seen as a engine benchmark, so this makes it easier for (which uses to provide it's search answers, if I understand correctly) to edge up on them in the rankings...

mastodonmigration, to random
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

So, this surveillance capitalism thing is totally out of hand. Today @protonmail had a great explainer (https://mastodon.social/@protonmail/111165171600485248) on the mind bending evil Google is up to with it's new "privacy features". But pretty much every tech company is now in the business of profiling you and monetizing your tidbits.

What can you do? A lot as it turns out, but if you just want ONE EASY THING that you can do today, SWITCH TO FIREFOX (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) and make DuckDuckGo your default search engine.

thetechtutor,
@thetechtutor@me.dm avatar

@mastodonmigration @protonmail

100% disagree about your #searchengine recommendation.

For top #privacy and #Security choose a search engine that is not located in the US nor any of the “five eyes” countries.

That means avoid #google #duckduckgo and #mojeek

Try #startpage or #searx

billgoats, to retrocomputing
@billgoats@bitbang.social avatar

Nobody mourned the shift from warm and thick CRTs to slender and cool LCDs more than cats.

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@billgoats also is best !

Thx to @ActionRetro for making it!

lydiaconwell, to reddit
@lydiaconwell@mas.to avatar

Whenever I ask a question and get a result that links to I make sure I don't click on it.

Yeah, it might have the answer ...

somewhere ...

down the thread ...

at some point ...

in amongst all the bullshit ...

itnewsbot, to microsoft
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Google deal may have kept Apple from building search engine, exec says - Enlarge / Apple Senior Vice President of Services Eddy Cue. (credit: Ju... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1971491 #departmentofjustice #antitrusttrial #antitrustlaw #googlesearch #searchengine #antitrust #microsoft #monopoly #google #policy #iphone #apple #bing

StartpageSearch, to random
@StartpageSearch@mastodon.social avatar

StartMail is a privacy-first email service that keeps your inbox safe. https://www.startmail.com/en/

blueghost, (edited )
@blueghost@mastodon.online avatar

@StartpageSearch
Why does Startpage use ?

Why does Startpage not use StartMail?

This is a concern because you are promoting StartMail with your post but do not use the service.

There are people that work for both Startpage & StartMail, resources are shared between the two companies since they were founded by the same people, and there are multiple links to on the website.

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