Searx has been a game changer!
Searx.space for those joy in the know.
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Rooki@lemmy.world 10 months agoGoogle imperfected the web. As in made it unsafer, privacy is a joke. The “old” internet was good, but it couldnt get monetized.
Google showed us all that advertisments arent your friend, rather they are harmfull, just because of google there are so many users that use especially for youtube or google adblockers, so that they dont have to see “Milfs in your area” on a “Childrens Platform” ( youtube ).
If you search for something for example “docker postgresql” first results are ads ( malicious spam, virus, trojaner ) then there comes like 50 blog posts about postgresql and sometimes with docker in the title. After scrolling to page 2 there it is after another 2-3 ads there is your wanted page… oh wait no its just a dynamic page that insert {search query} into the title and has some icon detection. After that you go to another search engine DuckDuckGo… first result it is your wanted page. Or even use a open source search engine collector like SearXNG that asks multiple search engines for a result.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And almost everything you’re talking about is prior to GPT generated content filling the internet. At least when you are reading a blog, it was written by a human being who put care into their work, and if they’re wrong, it’s probably a typo.
We badly need a search engine that’s got human-generated content on the other side, and if anybody is writing SEO tutorials, all they should be able to say is “Don’t be misleading with your content”
Rooki@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A bit before that too. Those ad problems are there already since the start of google ads. They dont get monitored or reports dont get through.
My idea is just to use a forum ( like lemmy ;D ) Those are mostly human created and you can just ask if you still dont know.
HidingCat@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yes, that's why before Reddit went to shit we all added "reddit" to the search terms. I do miss the old web a lot.
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The thing that made Reddit valuable was that it was a bastion of user-generated content. To a great extent, it still is… Unless you happen to be avoiding their website for ethical reasons, which is understandable.
That’s also why they’re trying to hold on to it by any means necessary; they know that the software itself isn’t any good without the data that has been generated using it.
I hope Lemmy search functionality gets better. Right now, it’s pretty slow from an instance, and I haven’t ever seen its stuff pop up in a conventional search engine.