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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain (www.404media.co)
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[–] 5 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

So, I disabled everything AI the I can think of, use DDG as a search engine, ad block wherever, blah blah blah, my search results SUCK. Is there a better way to fix it?

And I use Linux at home...no blows crap

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Suck in what way? And what kind of stuff do you usually search?

    I used to think search was kind of an universal thing but after looking at some people's examples of what is a good or bad result I noticed that is definitely not the case.

    For me a good search result is a list of sites that contain the words I typed on the search bar, sorted by how closely the words match and then perhaps subsorted by some website ranking system. For that, DDG has been quite decent.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Not OP, but I find the DDG results are SEO sites at the top for pages.

    My search: how to fit a dog collar

    Top 50 results from DDG:

    fitting a dog collar is difficult and many people wonder how to fit a dog collar. This article will show you how to fit a dog collar.

    A dog collar is difficult to fit. Perhaps you've wondered how to fit a dog collar.

    To be fair, SEO ruined the internet and Internet searches well before AI and it's not DDG's fault. But I would love it if blatant SEO was filtered out of my results.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Part of it might be how Google trained everyone to use natural language queries in their searches.

    Instead of “how to fit a dog collar” does

    “pet advice” +”dog collar” “guidance for new dog owners”

    give you better results?

    The idea is to search for a cluster of terms that are likely to be on the page you want to find, but aren’t hyper-focused like SEO pages.

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