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Fuck AI with "Fuck" (lemmy.abnormalbeings.space)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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A magical word.

Source: https://mastodon.online/@gardiner_bryant/114309539375105773

A screenshot of a mastodon post by gardiner_bryant@mastodon online, reading: "I just had an elderly woman explain to me how she "gets around Google's AI." She just puts "fuck" at the beginning of her search result and the AI "doesn't like it." It also seems to not place ads in my results as I've been testing. Quite a novel and interesting way to get around the search rot and AI slop!"
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc all suffer the same problems. I’d love to hear other alternatives (and I don’t mean alternatives like searx that is little more than lipstick on a pig and proxies search results from said engines).

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

    There's nothing perfect. I use Kagi which uses many other indexes including Google, but with a focus on "small web" results and no ads or mandatory AI nonsense.

    ...but it costs money.

    Well worth it in my opinion. My results have been better than Google for me, and I've been using it for like a year now. Highly recommend.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    How is DuckDuckGo shitty? It suits me fine.

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

    That's not the word I would use but yeah, it's basically a frontend for Bing. And what's especially annoying is that it serves you links to unpaywalled news that's behind an MSN paywall.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Thanks for that because I do feel like, thinking back to earlier today it wasn't giving me the video result I was looking for when searching for "Chinese tiktok make America great again"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I daily DDG but !g bang out to Google 80% of the time

    Hit the back button once this month though - DDG was better than Google!!!

    Has only happened twice I’ve noticed in a year!

    DDG, pls use my data to be less terribly terrible (and stop rearranging results, as reported years ago)

    PS: will get Kagi once I find a job cuz too lazy or something to get into SearXNG properly like I should. And Mullvad’s got Leta btw which like bundles searches for privacy

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    well there’s european based search engines like marginalia-search.com (but it mainly uses keywords, but has search filters at the bottom of the search result) and stract.com (which is in beta), I’d like to see if there’s more tho

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