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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (www.404media.co)
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[–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

To get a decent result on Google, you have to wade through 2 pages of ads, 4 pages of sponsored content, and maybe the first good result is on page 10.

ChatGPT does a good job at filtering most of the bullshit.

I know enough to not just accept any shit from the internet at face value.

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Why the fuck are you defending google so hard lmao.

    Google will absolutely put bad information front and center too.

    And by using Google you make Google richer. In fact you get served far more ads using Google products than chatGPT.

    What's your fucking point lmao.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Why the fuck are you defending google so hard lmao.

    Ah yes, when I said "use a different search engine" as a solution to Google having issues I'm certainly defending Google! What an endorsement right? "Use a completely different service" is free publicity for Google!

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Other search engines are even worse than Google lmao. Brave consistently provide literally the worst results. Duck duck go same.

    Are you actually serious.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Are you actually serious.

    Very serious, doctors surgically removed my ability to be silly. But on a different note, if you think every search engine ever gives worse results than ChatGPT, I'm afraid the heavy LLM usage already rotted parts of your brain. I'm sorry for the bad news.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think you missed a part of their comment:

    Block ads and use a different search engine?

    Both Ecosia and DuckDuckGo have served me pretty well. Kagi also seems somewhat interesting.
    Ecosia is working with Qwant on their own index, the first version of which has already gone online I believe. So they're no longer exclusively relying on Bing/Google for their back-end.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I have yet to use an alternate search engine for any length of time (and i've tried a few) and think "ah yes, this was the kind of results I expected from my search", they're systematically worse than google, which is an incredible achievement, considering how absolute garbage google is nowadays.

    Brave, which i'm using now, is atrocious with that. The amount of irrelevant bullshit it throws at you before getting to the stuff you are actually looking for is actually incredible.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    The CEO of brave, Brendan Eich, is opposed to same-sex marriage.
    They, too, are working on their own index, but I cannot support that company and would suggest you seek alternatives.

    And, though Ecosia/DDG don't always show what I want, it's very easy to add a !g to my already existing query and get put through to google. Which is rare, mind you, but comes in handy every so often. Does that mean it sometimes takes a *bit* of effort to get the result I'm after? Yeah, but that is a sacrifice I'm happy to make when it comes to supporting alternatives.

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