Technology

Unfortunately this isn’t about you, but the 90% of people who don’t understand what AI is at all and don’t give a shit where the responses come from as long as “scorpio dream meaning high school teacher truck” and “can you gregnant with cousin?” Give them answers they like

/s to an extent, but here we are

The weirdest thing about switching to kagi was learning that the first few results have a good chance of being relevant. I got so used to scrolling down after a search. It was just weird to have the useful results on top. Similarly, learning that search syntax is actually meaningful and respected by the search engine (for the majority of cases).

It’s another tech bubble like the dot com bubble. But at this point, the AI bubble, the crypto bubble, and the capitalism bubble will all crash at the same time as the world economy falls apart and we end up in another global war. I guess the accelerationists that survive will get their wish and see what remains and if it’s the neofuedalist white supremacy utopia they dream of

It’s been a long time I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for basic stuff (which let’s be honest, more than 80% is just a simple query to find a certain area of some website, like “Firefox download Windows”, “Discord site status”, “Microsoft office pricing” etc.). If I want to search something more related to my own language or recent events in my county, Google is a must, but that’s like 10% of all my search engine usage. I don’t really need Google to know about the other 90%.

yeah udm14 getting pretty bad lately. That is why I moved to startpage which is same Google services without AI and sponsored contents

https://www.google.com/search?q=drp&udm=14 still works for me....

I'm from India so two more things to add to the list

Air - fucked.

Cleanliness - megafucked.

Every civilization rises and falls. We're on the down slope ATM. Sorry. The 80s and 90s were pretty nice in America!

Does EVERY axis in life have to be fucked up at the same time?

Yes. There are many texts written on this since start of writing, some are written down from what was carried in word before that since start of speaking.

Every single one of these flows from wealth inequality.

The ladder has been privatized.

You get the greased pole.

I know it isn't much, but services like mastodon, lemmy, kbin, friendica, Peertube, etc have shown me there is connected pushback.

Tilde communities have given me something smaller scale to focus on.

https://tildeverse.org/

This makes sense to me. All other reasons presented sound like wishful thinking that google is still the same company from 2005

I mean, they're ruining their search anyways. It's almost unusable at this point, it's like asking for relevant ads and two year old Reddit posts

Is it censorship? Did they decide to just straight up sell SEO? Are websites locking down and blocking their crawlers to stop AI training crawlers?

I legitimately find Bing to be better at this point, but whatever they're doing it's maddening. Even better AI assisted web searches kinda suck because the data fed into them is more of the same

But solid chance they're trying to boost Gemini, which has been a shockingly bad llm for a company that basically wrote the book on AI not too long ago

There's a new beta one which only uses its own index: https://stract.com/

And best of all it's written in Rust.

There's not really a strong player in the open source search space.

Mwmnl exists, but per their own readme:

The quality is a long way's off from matching the commercial engines at the moment

Kagi provides the source code for many of their services, but is not truly open source, especially because at its core, it relies on applying its own rankings to other's indexes.

That said, search is a space where the old adage rings true:

If you're not paying for it; you are the product!

For what it's worth, I find value in my Kagi subscription.

Maybe something to use only for fun, but check out Marginalia. It’s open source and as far as I know, runs in the guy’s computer at his house. It deprioritizes commercial websites and boosts small blogs instead.

Every time I go there I find something genuinely interesting or cozy to read.