But if they block ChatGPT, how will ChatGPT save us from right-wing fascism?
Guys? Guys! Did you hear? Twitter is under the rule of an inept petty tyrant!
Sorry, let me translate that:
TWITTUH IS UNDUH DA WOOL OF AN INEPT PETTY TYWANT!1!
never heard of gigablast. seems to be gone now.
2023-05-02 14:53 from Nurb432
Subject: Re: De-centralized search engines
never heard of gigablast. seems to be gone now.
I have mentioned it numerous times around but nobody ever listens to my wise advice :(
I suppose we can keep Mojeek as a replacement. Gigablast was semi-opensource, though.
Thom Holwerda, mincing faggot of OSNews.com, on "What Happens When Google Search Doesn't Have the Answers?":
"Search on the web is in a terrible state right now. Searching for anything on Google is a horrible experience, with results riddled with ads and an endless stream of SEO’d garbage content of low to no quality. Alternatives, such as DuckDuckGo, aren’t much better, and tend to promote garbage anti-science and fascist nonsense if you’re not careful enough."
To be fair, "riddled with ads ", well that is how google pays the bills.. No ads = no google search. Sounds like someone wants a free lunch.
But, of course promoting left-wing censorship, complete with talking points, that another issue.
Thom Holwerda, mincing faggot of OSNews.com, on "What Happens When Google Search Doesn't Have the Answers?":
"Search on the web is in a terrible state right now. Searching for anything on Google is a horrible experience, with results riddled with ads and an endless stream of SEO’d garbage content of low to no quality. Alternatives, such as DuckDuckGo, aren’t much better, and tend to promote garbage anti-science and fascist nonsense if you’re not careful enough."
2023-05-09 07:55 from nonservator
Subject: Re: De-centralized search engines
Thom Holwerda, mincing faggot of OSNews.com, on "What Happens When
Google Search Doesn't Have the Answers?":
"Search on the web is in a terrible state right now. Searching for
anything on Google is a horrible experience, with results riddled
with ads and an endless stream of SEO’d garbage content of low to
no quality. Alternatives, such as DuckDuckGo, aren’t much better,
and tend to promote garbage anti-science and fascist nonsense if
you’re not careful enough."
Google results have been going down the drain for quite some time already.
I think the best option nowadays is to use a Searx instance instead, with a combination of indexes enabled.
actually, i have found lately i dont hardly bother with search anyway. Or much of anything else online
Perhaps its apathy, or just not giving a damn anymore, but its all crap. everything. everywhere.
Sturgeon's Law rules the universe.
Personally, I use DuckDuckGo most of the time and have not noticed any bias in results. Sometimes I find something useful, sometimes not.
2023-05-10 17:19 from Nurb432
Subject: Re: De-centralized search engines
actually, i have found lately i dont hardly bother with search
anyway. Or much of anything else online
Perhaps its apathy, or just not giving a damn anymore, but its all
crap. everything. everywhere.
I agree that actual content has also gone down the drain, but sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do. This often means you gotta search "$program memory leak issue" to find out if a fix exist to your damn program :P
2023-05-11 01:28 from papa
Subject: Re: De-centralized search engines
Sturgeon's Law rules the universe.
Personally, I use DuckDuckGo most of the time and have not noticed
any bias in results. Sometimes I find something useful, sometimes
not.
DuckDuckGo is better than Google in that regard, but you may notice it tries to keep the "worst of the web" hidden.
If you want to find video footage of the last shootout in which a cop pocked some holes in a robber, chances are big search engines and platforms will have it removed from search results.
Yandex does not bother that much to hide ugly searches, for example. Not that I like Yandex.
Yandex does not obey + or - any more than the cucked search engines of the West. Absolute trash.
To me Yandex seems to do a better job with 'sensitive subjects' than US based ones. Which is ironic. However, for general topics ( like code help, or how to bake a cake ) US based ones seem better.
Need a decentralized one that provides a meta-search of the big ones + its own bots to avoid the censorship/bias.
Yandex does not obey + or - any more than the cucked search engines of the West. Absolute trash.
To me Yandex seems to do a better job with 'sensitive subjects' than
US based ones. Which is ironic. However, for general topics ( like
code help, or how to bake a cake ) US based ones seem better.
That is what I like about Yandex, the search results are not filtered to enforce Silicon Valley values.
As has been suggested however, computing power is increasing faster than the size of the searchable web in general, so it is only a matter of time before search becomes democratized and commoditized. It might be a while but I think we will get there.
At this point it's "anything but Google" for me, mainly because I can't stand their stupid "doodles". Bing is disqualified as well, not because it's from Micro$oft, but because it's nearly impossible to search Bing without being force-fed MSN News.
Brave Search is my favorite but it's blocked by our IT department (along with Yandex) so I use DuckDuckGo at work and Brave Search at home.
"news"?
Id call it propaganda :)
being force-fed MSN News.
"news"?
Well that's what they call it. The fact that it's actually the usual corporate propaganda is the main reason I refuse to accept it on my screen.
Thanks for the info. I have used DuckDuckGo a bit in the past but don't like it cause it's just Bing mostly. I will play with YaCY for sure as it sounds promising. Yandex is ok, I like it a lot better than google and duckduckgo for sure. I am using Brave browser as of earlier tonite and so far am quite pleased. Hopefully Brave search will prove to be pretty decent as I have heard.
What is wrong with YaCY?
Not distributed but how about duck duck go? not perfect but better.
And as silly as it sounds, something like yandex, While still a huge corp i have found it less restrictive/biased ( for non-Russian things anyway, i cant comment about in-country bias ) than google.
Does anyone know of any good de-centralized engines like Ya-cy that are live now to the public? I recently have decided to migrate away from the goolge/bing padded-cell and discover new things for a change. Obviously it is difficult to find such things nowadays! I can think of no more fun I had than in the early 90s accessing the web through a telnet connection to wustl.edu library and using Lynx. Things only went downhill from there. No images, but lots of information that shaped me which would never happen now.
"Has anyone else been blocked from signing up to services by trying to sign up using a non-mobile phone number? I actually have a proper business line forwarded to me for business calls, but providers including google like to block such lines."
Oddly, I remember when it was mobile phones that were considered untrustworthy.
I have been blocked " we do not support VoIP connections"
Why the hell not?
Fri Jul 14 2023 02:07:28 PM EDT from nonservator"Has anyone else been blocked from signing up to services by trying to sign up using a non-mobile phone number? I actually have a proper business line forwarded to me for business calls, but providers including google like to block such lines."
Oddly, I remember when it was mobile phones that were considered untrustworthy.
2023-07-14 14:07 from nonservator
"Has anyone else been blocked from signing up to services by trying
to sign up using a non-mobile phone number? I actually have a proper
business line forwarded to me for business calls, but providers
including google like to block such lines."
Oddly, I remember when it was mobile phones that were considered
untrustworthy.
That happens regularly.
I think the idea is e mobile phone number is asociated to a person but a tabletop phone number is asociated with a location. If you want to sue phone numbers as identifiers for people, it makes more sense to demand they are mobile.
I personally oppose using phone numbers as user identifiers.
Does anyone under 70 years old even *have* a landline anymore?