I don't know. I'm having great difficulty finding an Ask comm where people ask sincere questions that can't be answered with a simple search.

Kagi

First I search on google, using the full prompt as search string. Then I check all the resulting pages for their likelihood of being AI-generated using an AI. This step is very important. In each of the 100 most likely AI-generated websites, I go to the contact information subpage. There I can find either a web form for sending a message or an e-mail address. I use this form or e-mail information to send a message that contains the full prompt. This step should be repeated 10 times to accommodate for packet loss. After this is done, the first word of the website's home page contains a part of the thing I wanted to search. This technique works very well, I learned it in academia and told all my friends about it, it works excellent for them as well.

I search for it.

I ain't telling you shit, fed.

I decided to stop using Google and YouTube for this month (i.e. September 2026), so now I'm using DuckDuckGo.

Google seems to have gotten worse, and as a Canadian I'm a bit ticked how they caved in on Trump over the "Lake America" thing.

I also use Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikidata ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page ).

Is there something in particular you're looking for?

One time I was in another country and wanted to find a club.

So naturally I found a local, and asked them to tell me where everything on the continent was.

Because surely that was better than just asking for what I needed.

"I want you to give me all your info so I can have AI make a report so I can take credit"

Duckduckgo serves my needs 90% of the time. Sometimes it takes a bit to find a search term that yields the results I'm looking for. I also have an rss feed I've been curating for years where I get my news. It's got a good mix of neutral sources and opinionated ones across the political spectrum along with specific topics I want to remain current on.

When I'm doing research or more open ended investigations I start with wikipedia and go through the sources for the topic I'm interested in. From time to time I will ask Claude or ChatGPT for sources and they're both usually good enough for my purposes though I never just take their word for it.

I go to Google to google myself and I take the mouse and shove it up my butt.

Wow, look this big red flag!

Fuckin glowies.