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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

i can feel it too when I use it. that is why i use it only for trivial things if at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

chatbots and ai are just dumber 1990s search engines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember 90s search engines. AltaVista was pretty ok a t searching the small web that existed, but I'm pretty sure I can get better answers from the LLMs tied to Kagi search.

AltaVista also got blown out of the water by google(back when it was just a search engine), and that was in the 00s not the 90s. 25 to 35 years ago is a long time, search is so so much better these days(or worse if you use a "search" engine like Google now).

Don't be the product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Depending on what I needed I remember using AltaVista, AskJeeves, Dogpile, and I feel like later on MetaCrawler or something like that (would search multiple search engines for you and ordered them scored based on platform and relevancy iirc?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And Hastalavista if you wanted to find things that Altavista didn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I miss AskJeeves. Those were some great commercials too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Negative IQ points?

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