you don’t have to tell me information about why Rui’s drive is gone, I just googled it because I forgot their name (I thought it was Anadius’ drive at first)

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    123·
    21 days ago

    It’s just cool to see Lemmy in any search result. It kind of reinforces that what we are doing here matters. Downside is that if an instance goes down, only a potential archive is there.

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
      186·
      20 days ago

      be aware that google results are personalized for you, so that really doesn’t say much about what “average user” sees…

      screenshot is not from google, my bad.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
      39·
      21 days ago

      Which is probably why the lemmy UI started getting randomly overwhelmed from AI scraping bots :S

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netEnglish
        9·
        20 days ago

        We should invent something that rotates community IDs but only non-bots see the real IDs, flood lemmy instanced with anti-AI posts and dont federate those posts.

        Like, lemmy.ml/c/linux is suddenly garbage, and actually another community.

        But I guess that would create massive drawbacks in UX, requiring javascript, logins or even captchas and breaking links

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
          25·
          20 days ago

          It’s almost impossible to determine bots nowadays. They’re better at solving captchas than humans.

          • ex_06@slrpnk.netEnglish
            51·
            20 days ago

            If only we did not give up on social distributed verification instead of an automatic one e_e

          • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netEnglish
            32·
            20 days ago

            The world we created…

            Actually with electronic cryptographic IDs we could get rid of a shitload of issues. Everyone gets 2 passkeys and a strange method to reset stuff like with some other identification.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    341·
    21 days ago

    Google search is complete shite nowadays. We’re just lucky nobody is advertising for those keywords.

    • incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      21 days ago

      The research is from Duck Go Go as most people have already said but I appreciate your comment offending Google. More people should do this nowadays!

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
        10·
        21 days ago

        eh, ddg is just bing. Only marginally better ideologically, and probably worse practically.

        • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8·
          20 days ago

          fr!! im always confused when people advertise ddg as ‘the best privacy browser’ when it is well-known their results are bing’s, also the huge marketing campaign they did about how they’re ‘the most private and respect your privacy’ just weirded me out?? like it was a bit suspicious idk. oh yeah and that thing where the mobile ddg browser allowed microsoft trackers on microsoft ads because of their deal with bing (hey that rhymed!!)

          ++ half the time when i searched for anything moderately obscure there would be 0 results, or even if i didnt search for stuff like that i’d get results completely unrelated to my query.

            • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              14 days ago

              I currently really enjoy self-hosted Perplexica (a FOSS alternative to the Perplexity AI search engine), which uses SearXNG as a meta-crawler, and Ollama for local AI integration. I’m very happy with it, but it requires a fairly powerful server (not a Raspberry Pi or another SBC, the only one that might work is the Nvidia Jetson or whatever it’s called, but I haven’t tried that yet).

            • unrushed233@lemmings.worldEnglish
              2·
              14 days ago

              I don’t know, I also use DDG because I can’t find a better alternative. I thought you had a better recommendation 😂

              The only thing that comes to my mind is 4get, a proxy for DDG which is a little better for your privacy, since you don’t have to trust DDG as much. But it lacks some features like DDG’s Bangs.

              There’s also LibreY, a fork of LibreX, which acts as a proxy for Google. Still not great though. The one thing I really like about it, it that it also has a built-in torrent search feature.

              I think the best option is SearXNG, you can configure which search engines you want to use, and you can access DDG bangs by using two exclamation marks (e.g. !!yt for YouTube)

              Unfortunately there’s no good self-hostable search engine with a good web crawler