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you don't have to tell me information about why Rui's drive is gone, I just googled it because I forgot their name (I thought it was Anadius' drive at first)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

we're getting there sailors

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Nature is healing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

What's this about me?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Damn, we are finally indexed??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You could find lemmy links while searching on duckduckgo for months

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is probably why the lemmy UI started getting randomly overwhelmed from AI scraping bots :S

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We should invent something that rotates community IDs but only non-bots see the real IDs, flood lemmy instanced with anti-AI posts and dont federate those posts.

Like, lemmy.ml/c/linux is suddenly garbage, and actually another community.

But I guess that would create massive drawbacks in UX, requiring javascript, logins or even captchas and breaking links

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's almost impossible to determine bots nowadays. They're better at solving captchas than humans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If only we did not give up on social distributed verification instead of an automatic one e_e

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

The world we created...

Actually with electronic cryptographic IDs we could get rid of a shitload of issues. Everyone gets 2 passkeys and a strange method to reset stuff like with some other identification.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Better than Tumblr!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Celebrate all the things!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Google search is complete shite nowadays. We're just lucky nobody is advertising for those keywords.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The research is from Duck Go Go as most people have already said but I appreciate your comment offending Google. More people should do this nowadays!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

eh, ddg is just bing. Only marginally better ideologically, and probably worse practically.

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

Sadly, Ddg. What else can I use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I currently really enjoy self-hosted Perplexica (a FOSS alternative to the Perplexity AI search engine), which uses SearXNG as a meta-crawler, and Ollama for local AI integration. I'm very happy with it, but it requires a fairly powerful server (not a Raspberry Pi or another SBC, the only one that might work is the Nvidia Jetson or whatever it's called, but I haven't tried that yet).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know, I also use DDG because I can't find a better alternative. I thought you had a better recommendation 😂

The only thing that comes to my mind is 4get, a proxy for DDG which is a little better for your privacy, since you don't have to trust DDG as much. But it lacks some features like DDG's Bangs.

There's also LibreY, a fork of LibreX, which acts as a proxy for Google. Still not great though. The one thing I really like about it, it that it also has a built-in torrent search feature.

I think the best option is SearXNG, you can configure which search engines you want to use, and you can access DDG bangs by using two exclamation marks (e.g. !!yt for YouTube)

Unfortunately there's no good self-hostable search engine with a good web crawler

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

fr!! im always confused when people advertise ddg as 'the best privacy browser' when it is well-known their results are bing's, also the huge marketing campaign they did about how they're 'the most private and respect your privacy' just weirded me out?? like it was a bit suspicious idk. oh yeah and that thing where the mobile ddg browser allowed microsoft trackers on microsoft ads because of their deal with bing (hey that rhymed!!)

++ half the time when i searched for anything moderately obscure there would be 0 results, or even if i didnt search for stuff like that i'd get results completely unrelated to my query.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What's a good web search engine nowadays?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

rarely any, for yandex is occasionally useful if you can stand the Russian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've had an easy time finding pirated stuff using the Brave search engine. Main downside is that its run by Brave. Not the best of people imho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Mullvad VPN offers Brave Search as a backend in their Leta search engine proxy. That way you don't have to access Brave directly.

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

None. There's no good ones. There's at best acceptable ones

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

meaning the afore mentioned or do you have some tips

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I've been liking searxng. It aggregates results from search engines you select and returns the results without being tracked by them.

https://docs.searxng.org/

https://searx.space/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG

SearXNG is a free and open-source federated metasearch engine forked from Searx. SearXNG supports over 70 different search engines. Similar to Searx, it does not collect information about users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like I've said elsewhere, I've had good results finding pirated media using the Brave search engine. The main downside is that it's run by Brave, and they are a bunch of cryptobros

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Goodbye.

Man, AskOuija is starting to leak out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's just cool to see Lemmy in any search result. It kind of reinforces that what we are doing here matters. Downside is that if an instance goes down, only a potential archive is there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

~~be aware that google results are personalized for you, so that really doesn't say much about what "average user" sees...~~

screenshot is not from google, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Well this is duck duck go, I don't think that is personalized?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, I missed that. I am not sure whether it behaves similarly to Google in this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

DDG makes it quite the statement that they don't personalise your search in any way, to the point where you can pick which country's tailored results you want from a dropdown.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I used tor to check if it was just on my end and it was the 6th result there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can confirm same result when searching through searx instances, result provided by google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

3rd result using these settings on searxng.