Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic

Hond@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just add Wikipedia to your search bar

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use the DDG bang :

    1. Go to https://duchduckgo.com
    2. Enter !w <your-search-here>
    3. It searches Wikipedia specifically for <your-search>

    There are bangs for “image search” (!im), “github search” (!gh), “search PubMed” (!pm)

    You cannot live without this

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why would I need any of that if I can bang the search bar of my browser instead, and it takes me straight to search on Wikipedia or any other site I want without waiting for DDG to add that site?

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      • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Relieved to find this response below the others. Why TF would you search for a site i) whose URL you know? ii) waste space on your browser by adding the website as a search bar on your browser’s menu bar? How much time do people anticipate they’ll save by avoiding typing Wikipedia.org into the address field?

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      • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        if that’s working, it means your browser search bar is configured to route thru DDG

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can completely skip DDG’s systems by just using your search bar though.

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      • CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I know I speak for everyone on Lemmy that they prefer entering their question into Grok.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We can probably live without Bing

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I want them all to exist, it gives searXNG more hits to eliminate ads.

        searXNG, find bob’s bugers

        • Google: bob’s burgers
        • Bing: bob’s burgers
        • Brave: bob’s burgers

        What do they all agree on? Give it back to the user.

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• proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …why don’t you just go to Wikipedia to begin with? I’m honestly asking. URLs still exist.

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  • Hond@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wikipedias search kinda sucked 15 years ago. So i never bothered to try it again since then tbh

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It seems significantly better now. A lot of topics, I just go straight to Wikipedia now.

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• MunkyNutts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you add ‘!w’ to the end of your word in the address bar it takes you directly to wikipedia.

  For example: buffalo buffalo buffalo !w

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only if you are a good netizen and using DDG ;)

    https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This used ducks

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