If anyone is wondering how google is doing, it is giving incorrect answers to the query “How old is the Universe?”
Instead of serving up scientific consensus (just shy of 14 billion years) it is latching onto recent media coverage of a questionable study (tired light, time-dependent coupling constants) claiming a much larger figure.
Notably, it gives me the right answer from an incognito window. But elevating popularity metrics over scientific consensus is a real problem!
Seems like a good day (in #Canada, at least) to talk about non-Google search engines.
I've been using Kagi -- https://kagi.com/ -- for a while and find it quite useful so far. Haven't hit my free limit though and wondering if it's worth paying for.
Any other #SearchEngine suggestions or tips out there?
Proposal for an open source/FOSS edition of ChromeOS:
-Fdroid and Aurora Store as the app stores
-Vivaldi as the default browser (specially made for ChromeOS)
-Google integration replaced with Nextcloud
-Search replaced with DuckDuckGo, Qwant, or a pre-customized SearXNG
-Play Services replaced with microG
-WINE integration (if possible)
Don't know what else to add actually but I would like some more ideas if possible! Also, this is just a concept
interesting move by #Brave in releasing an #API for their #SearchEngine with an emphasis on it's use in training #AI. I expect this to be a controversial move, imho, it rubs a bit against the grain of the #privacy / #security centric ethos of the Brave ecosystem.
Full announcement from Brave: https://brave.com/search-api-launch/
In an earlier post, I extolled the virtues of the #SearchEngine#Neeva, which was one of the first to use #AI to deliver a search result summary. I take it all back. Neeva suddenly announced it will be shutting down on June 1, and even before that date, it already sold itself to #BigData company #Snowflake. It is an almost comical example of sellout and betrayal. I should never have trusted a guy who used to be a #Google insider.
Despite my recent whinging about search results in DuckDuckGo since it became a front-end for Bing, I've noticed a curious thing over a few weeks of testing with other search engines. It usually returns better results for NZ-specific searches than either Mojeek or Monocles.de.
For those not using it yet, I highly recommend @perplexity_ai, on Twitter especially as a starting point when exploring a new subject. No phone number or login needed (yet). Sources mentioned. https://www.perplexity.ai/
Examples #perplexity#IA#searchengine
What percentage of your web searches are you now performing using an #LLM (#chatgpt, #bing chat, #google bard, etc) vs a traditional #search engine experience?
Wait a second… Why is it, that we need a search engine to use the web? I mean, the web wouldn’t be as useful without one. Web is too dependent on Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing/etc – and there is no fix. #SearchEngine#Web#Internet
What do you all think of a #Fediverse#SearchEngine that doesn't index? You can give it a #search term and it goes out and looks through the fediverse, hopping from instance to instance. It would send you an email a few days later with the results.
Qwant - The European search engine that respects your privacy (about.qwant.com)
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