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“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven't looked back.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    DuckDuckGo 🦆

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.

    Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn't include Copilot or a lowercase i :p

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, don't ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called "Razor."

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I'm aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It was called Remote Desktop before, but some security problems, and the fact you can connect to a program running on a server (rather than the whole OS interface) .. Made them rename it, most of the tech is still the same though and most guides still apply to it.

    Come to think of it, I seem to remember that the connect to an app, rather than desktop functionality was available in Windows Server 2012, so renaming it now is a delayed response at best.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’ve started using SearXNG. Are these better?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.

    Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it's essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Any recommendations on how to get started with that? I've been using it but without digging through a frankly intimidating list of configuration options, I'm not feeling like it's really adding much value yet

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Careful. I suggested kagi in another thread and was accused of being a shill.

    Don't understand how people can pay $7 for a coffee but won't consider paying $5 or $10 a month for clean search results.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I'm really happy. It's fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.

    If I hate a particular website, I'll just block it and never see it again. It's so simple. The new "AI generated" tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.

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  • [+] -48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Honestly I just use ChatGPT for all my questions now

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hopefully not for anything that requires an accurate result...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you ask it to find a source website rather then an explicit answer i don't see why not.

    The internet is full of lies to begin with, i wouldn't trust the snippets on the google search page either.

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