This is why search engines fucking suck now. Movies, music and shit come up before results on the actual thing you searched for, you should never have to type ladybug the insect, it should have to be ladybug animated series before you get results like this.
It makes me feel like I'm going insane because people look at me like I'm crazy when I complain about this. I legitimately think most people prefer search to work like this and I am completely baffled by it.
I find it funny that you are complaining about this not happening before while the comment directly above you has a dinosaur-era tumblr post describing the same problem
Trying to search any specific quote by Charlie Kirk within a day or two after his shooting was near impossible. at least on Google. It was about the ninth page of Google when I stopped seeing the majority of the search results being just articles about his shooting.
Google used to have an option for searching between specific dates, but many ones nowadays just have "last month, week, day" or whatever. Why the constant need for freshness? Let it simmer and wait...
Kagi is an amazing search engine, but their CEO is a textbook techbro, raised a few red flags for me. From "we're unpolitical" to "why would you need privacy by design, we say we don't collect data I don't get it"
But still, best search I EVER tried.
The results are actually from bing, searching directly on bing gives the same results and ddg is just querying that. Not defending anyone here but I hope this will make people hate Microsoft more. Fuck you Microsoft.
DDG's results are based in Bing's index, but they're not identical. I'm still waiting for DDG to act on a report I made of an extremely antisemitic (actual antisemitic, not anti-zionist) website made up mostly of freebooted content that shows up front and centre in a search I made. Bing doesn't show that site, despite the rest of the results for my query being similar.
where may i find an AI block list for ublock origin and what exactly does it do? (im imagining it blocks known AI websites from search results but that's a guess)
Are you fucking with us? I am eating the onion? When I read that I thought you were doing a bit like that greentext with all the goofy fake British names for things.
i looked for software for creating text files from file templates and all results were about c# stuff in visual studio. now, i do work with c#, but this happened across multiple devices and search engines and either way, i would prefer for search engine to not store and collect shit about me and just trust me, that i will specify c#, when thats what im looking for
Human Knuckles, holy shit! 🤣
That's....odd. That echidna didn't even show up as a result but only on some other search.
Edit: i search "red toad" and while the mushroom is there, it only appear once. I think search result nowadays also based on your past search.
You searched “knuckle” singular, not “knuckles” plural. It gives the echidna with the plural search term, since that’s his name.
Huh. TIL.
Google > Startpage > ddg > Yacy > Kagi
This is why search engines fucking suck now. Movies, music and shit come up before results on the actual thing you searched for, you should never have to type ladybug the insect, it should have to be ladybug animated series before you get results like this.
It makes me feel like I'm going insane because people look at me like I'm crazy when I complain about this. I legitimately think most people prefer search to work like this and I am completely baffled by it.
That’s the algorithm, basing top results on number of views.
Yeah and I'm saying it sucks. Should be topical informational results at least for the first page.
I find it funny that you are complaining about this not happening before while the comment directly above you has a dinosaur-era tumblr post describing the same problem
You must be new to the internet if thats a dinosaur era post to you.
Im glad youve been following me around the internet so you can tell me what I have and havent said.
Damn I'm sorry if I offended you, I meant it as a lighthearted observation, no sarcasm on my part
Also what?
They named an insect after the cartoon!?
Well, at least I know it's not that far from my human mind.
Once it took me a good minute to understand that when someone referred to "our furry friends", they were referring to animals...
Trying to search any specific quote by Charlie Kirk within a day or two after his shooting was near impossible. at least on Google. It was about the ninth page of Google when I stopped seeing the majority of the search results being just articles about his shooting.
You can filter by date
No option for "older than x date".
Google used to have an option for searching between specific dates, but many ones nowadays just have "last month, week, day" or whatever. Why the constant need for freshness? Let it simmer and wait...
Still exists. Select "use desktop site" in your browser.
Pic from just now.
Kagi for reference
I wish Kagi weren't so expensive or it would be a no brainer for me
I use it, but definitely agree it should have a cheaper tier. If they do a price bump I'm going to struggle to justify it.
It's a no brainer for me even with the cost. Worth it.
Kagi is an amazing search engine, but their CEO is a textbook techbro, raised a few red flags for me. From "we're unpolitical" to "why would you need privacy by design, we say we don't collect data I don't get it" But still, best search I EVER tried.
The results are actually from bing, searching directly on bing gives the same results and ddg is just querying that. Not defending anyone here but I hope this will make people hate Microsoft more. Fuck you Microsoft.
DDG's results are based in Bing's index, but they're not identical. I'm still waiting for DDG to act on a report I made of an extremely antisemitic (actual antisemitic, not anti-zionist) website made up mostly of freebooted content that shows up front and centre in a search I made. Bing doesn't show that site, despite the rest of the results for my query being similar.
search is so bad currently I had to install an AI block list on ublock origin
use ublacklist too
where may i find an AI block list for ublock origin and what exactly does it do? (im imagining it blocks known AI websites from search results but that's a guess)
I always thought they were called ladybirds
Depends where you are from I guess
Ahhh it's a location thing! I thought I'd just like, Mandela effected myself my whole life 😅
Bishy Barnabees
Excuse me? 😂
Genuinely. They've got some mad names lol
That's amazing 😅 where's that name from?
Norfolk in the UK. Supposedly after a particularly flamboyant bishop
That's fuckin awesome. Thank you! 🥳
Are you fucking with us? I am eating the onion? When I read that I thought you were doing a bit like that greentext with all the goofy fake British names for things.
I am absolutely not doing a bit: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/133526/what-is-the-origin-of-bishy-barney-bee although that's not how I woulda spelled it
Edit: spectator has a more plausible spelling in its article: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-a-ladybird-called-a-bishy-barnabee/
i looked for software for creating text files from file templates and all results were about c# stuff in visual studio. now, i do work with c#, but this happened across multiple devices and search engines and either way, i would prefer for search engine to not store and collect shit about me and just trust me, that i will specify c#, when thats what im looking for
Search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google have an "exclude" feature, prepend a word with "-"
Searching "rick" returns mostly Rick and Morty, while "rick -morty" excludes "morty", thus returning mostly Rick Astley
ddg is objectively worse, but at least it’s not google
this is jonathan brandis and rodney dangerfield erasure duckduckgo