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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Why not just use Google scholar?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

For those looking for some Google alternatives:

  • Qwant has a custom indexing strategy and is okay
  • Brave Search ~uses Google and Bing~ EDIT: they use a custom index too
  • Startpage uses Google and Bing and it’s prettier than Brave IMO
  • SearX is ugly but has a lot of sources
  • Perplexity AI tracks the shit out of you but it’s decent
  • Kagi is customizable but it costs you

Feel free to add on any I missed or opinions on these; I haven’t used any extensively

EDIT: Ecosia for trees and DDG for Bing without ads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Brave uses its own index. It used to be supplemented with results from other engines but I believe they have now phased that out.

Brave is the best of the free options in my experience, and it supports "bangs" which let's you send your querry to a different engine (typing "how far is it to the sun !g" will pass the search to google. Duckduckgo also supports bangs), this is especially helpful for image searches (!gi for google images) since braves image search sucks dogshit 😅

Quant seemed like the second best free option in my experience. Some people don't like brave as a company for various reasons, so quant may be a good option for those folks. Its my understanding that Mozilla has worked with quant in some way, which is kinda neat.

Both have their own index making them a sustainable/viable option going forward, where meta search engines that use other engine's results are at the whim of those they fetch the results from (but may provide better results by piggybacking off a larger successful engine)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It looks like OP tried to write $99.99 but got drunk and wrote it backwards

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could be Québécois . They put the dollar sign after the number, rather than before if I recall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or from a country that uses a currency that puts their sign afterwards so not that familiar with dollars

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It makes sense to put then sign after

We say 99.99 dollars not dollars 99.99

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Ah yes I love the science of rock and rock accessories

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Aaaaannd this is why I use Kagi. The site ranking feature let's me block or down rank sketchy sites. (And lets you boost credible sites.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

let's

HERE COMES THE S!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This scene live rent free in my head. Also fuckin Crystal Healing types make me look bad when I just think pretty rocks look nice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I know right? Completely ruin geology.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (5 children)

The only way crystals can heal you is if that crystal is salt and your illness is a salt deficiency.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You could probably use crystals of other elements to treat other deficiencies too, such as iron? But it's probably easier to just take an iron tablet or eat some food containing iron 😂

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Presenting to the emergency room with hyponatremia, from hypo meaning low, natron meaning sodium, and hemia meaning presence in blood. Low sodium presence in blood !

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

To be fair; pretty common.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What if I'm bleeding out from a gunshot wound and I have a crystal that is sufficient diameter to plug said gunshot wound?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Helps not die. Not so much heal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I remain skeptical. But you do you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

God I had this issue looking for used wheels for my car. Like, actual wheels to use for a track day, but results showed nothing but simracing threads for used STEERING wheels.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

As a gem and mineral collecting hobbyist I feel this pain so, so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Google decides what you want to see and what you want to see is right wing garbage.

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