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minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·1 day agoStill shocked to see people in 202X pull up a web search and it’s Google 🤢
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoI just tried this prompt on Gemini and it worked really well: Give me search results like a 1999 Google search on the content of the modern web for: “your search terms here” Not sure how long that will continue to appear un-biased and un-polluted by SEO, but it did pretty good for the things I tried.
minus-squareGreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 day agoThe average person doesn’t even know there’s other options. So, it’s working as designed.
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI guess that’s the benefit of a virtual monopoly.
minus-squareAdolfSchmitler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·24 hours agoI was more an AskJeevs guy myself
minus-squareDudleyMason@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoWhy? There hasn’t been a search engine worth the bandwidth it eats since infoseek got shut down.
minus-squaresome_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-220 hours agoUh, Kagi, Mojeek, DDG, Ecosia, searx (self-hosted or non). That’s just off the top of my head
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·19 hours agoFor general searches they all worked pretty until just recently for some reason
minus-squareDudleyMason@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoIf by “just recently” you mean “around 2010”, then sure.
Still shocked to see people in 202X pull up a web search and it’s Google 🤢
Better alternative?
I just tried this prompt on Gemini and it worked really well:
Give me search results like a 1999 Google search on the content of the modern web for: “your search terms here”
Not sure how long that will continue to appear un-biased and un-polluted by SEO, but it did pretty good for the things I tried.
Literally any one
The average person doesn’t even know there’s other options. So, it’s working as designed.
I guess that’s the benefit of a virtual monopoly.
Unfortunately
I was more an AskJeevs guy myself
Why? There hasn’t been a search engine worth the bandwidth it eats since infoseek got shut down.
Uh, Kagi, Mojeek, DDG, Ecosia, searx (self-hosted or non). That’s just off the top of my head
For general searches they all worked pretty until just recently for some reason
If by “just recently” you mean “around 2010”, then sure.