search engines
Posted: January 24th, 2024, 21:02
what is a search engine that isn't total shit these days
https://web.archive.org/web/20220310002 ... 4761997318Vergil wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:14My browser uses DuckDuckGo as a default and it fucking blows.
Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️
At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.
In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.
DuckDuckGo's mission is to make simple privacy protection accessible to all. Privacy is a human right and transcends politics, which is why about 100 million people around the world use DuckDuckGo. (We don't have an exact count since we don't track people.)
It's just as bad as all the others.asf wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:17i tried brave search in the past and it was really bad, did it improve or something
I'm well aware like I said it's the default I didn't choose this garbage.rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:19https://web.archive.org/web/20220310002 ... 4761997318Vergil wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:14My browser uses DuckDuckGo as a default and it fucking blows.Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️
At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.
In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.
DuckDuckGo's mission is to make simple privacy protection accessible to all. Privacy is a human right and transcends politics, which is why about 100 million people around the world use DuckDuckGo. (We don't have an exact count since we don't track people.)
That doesn't seem to affect most search results though. They rolled these changes back too, you can now find your precious rt.com articles through duck duck go. Their biggest problem is that they're mostly a bing proxy, they don't have their own crawlers.Vergil wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:23I'm well aware like I said it's the default I didn't choose this garbage.rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:19https://web.archive.org/web/20220310002 ... 4761997318Vergil wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:14My browser uses DuckDuckGo as a default and it fucking blows.Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️
At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.
In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.
DuckDuckGo's mission is to make simple privacy protection accessible to all. Privacy is a human right and transcends politics, which is why about 100 million people around the world use DuckDuckGo. (We don't have an exact count since we don't track people.)
what do you like about it?
These days, most top results look like AI generated garbage rather than pajeet written.asf wrote: ↑ January 24th, 2024, 21:34People (and google) are still blaming seo for google being garbage today but it is obviously some shitty excuse. The company simply stopped caring at some point, and has a bunch of pajeets 'maintaining' it. You type something in google, first few pages are copypasta poorly written articles made by some retarded pajeet.
Lutte wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2023, 02:38https://wiby.me/
Finally something that can cure the internet for good. Look at this wonder. No ad-riddled, jabba the script overloaded crap. Just plain old internet websites and forums.
Geez, the codex is on page 1 of a search as generic as just the term 'rpg'. Not bad. Could do better though: I submitted the HQ to the index.
I wish I had known about this sooner. Let's submit more content to this wonderland.
This one can be fun to search around and in its favor RPGHQ has been indexed.Wiby wrote:In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.
The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.
He likes how it populates results with forty links to the same website.
This was too nostalgic. I had to stop clicking on surprise me.SpellSword wrote: ↑ February 14th, 2024, 20:06Lutte wrote: ↑ March 21st, 2023, 02:38https://wiby.me/
Finally something that can cure the internet for good. Look at this wonder. No ad-riddled, jabba the script overloaded crap. Just plain old internet websites and forums.
Geez, the codex is on page 1 of a search as generic as just the term 'rpg'. Not bad. Could do better though: I submitted the HQ to the index.
I wish I had known about this sooner. Let's submit more content to this wonderland.This one can be fun to search around and in its favor RPGHQ has been indexed.Wiby wrote:In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.
The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.
I'm not sure what the difference is between the .me and .org versions if any. They both seem to be owned by the same person.
Wiby.me
Wiby.org
I like the results I get, and it's nice not having Google splatter results with "sponsored" links and other advertising garbage.