Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites

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• almost1337@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Time for some Neocities webrings

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We have one of the lowest ratios of crap to legitimate content, human-made content, on the Internet

  Well it’s microsoft, so maybe neocities wasn’t ai enough

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• Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly someone should spin up a small web index. You can isolate yourself to a nice corner of the Internet and ignore the rest of the toxic mess.

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes. I want an old school sewrch engine that JUST does blogs and small websites. And no “Big News Website Blogs”. Just random people on Wordpress and Blogger, etc.

    I was browsing a Geocities archive the other day and its just like, fuck I miss when the web was just fun and random people making dumb websites about random shit.

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    • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      isnt that the point of neocities?

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Kagi, the premium paid search engine, has a “small web” feature that is exactly this

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  • patatas@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    searchmysite.net and search.marginalia.nu are both kinda interesting. I don’t know that their models scale particularly well, but in some ways they don’t have to

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back in my day, I had an internet butler do that for me.

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• AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ’cause YaCy

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• Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who uses bing?

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  • FancyGreg@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    DuckDuckGo users?

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bing is basically the only search engine that doesn’t actively censor our porn results. Its impossible to find videos for shit on Google even with “safe search” turned off.

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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anyone who uses duckduckgo, since that’s where it gets its results from.

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  • grandel@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AFAIK there are only like 4 search engines in the world:

    1. Google
    2. Bing
    3. Yahoo
    4. Yandex

    Virtually every search site uses one or a combination of these.

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    • Yosmonkol@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yahoo uses the bing index, and aside from Google, Bing, and Yandex the only other larger english general search engine with its own index is Mojeek. Seirdy’s blog has more info on this along with reviews of more niche engines, and there is also the search engine map if you want something more visual.

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    • canihasaccount@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kagi has its own search engine and internal web indexing:

      help.kagi.com/kagi/…/search-sources.html#search-s…

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    • rozodru@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo “alliance thing” (can’t remember what it’s officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).

      Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is…yeah.

      Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they’re all the same except with those two you’re not going to get the AI slop or ads.

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    • gibandaley@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a UK search engine called Mojeek that has its own index. I won’t claim it’s results are as good as Google/Bing/Kagi etc but if you want to use an alternative it exists. I typically start all my searches there and then transition to DDG if I can’t find what I’m looking for.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are no Chinese search engines?

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty much every other search engine uses as it as their only or supplemental source as do all metasearch engines.

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  • recursive_recursion@piefed.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

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