• hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Idk how anyone searches the internet anymore. Search engines all turn up so I ask an AI. Maybe one out of 20 times it turns up what I’m asking for better than a search engine. The rest of the time it runs me in circles that don’t work and wastes hours. So then I go back to the search engine and find what I need buried 20 pages deep.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      It’s fucking awful isn’t it. Summer day soon when i can be arsed I’ll have to give one of the paid search engines a go.

      I’m currently on qwant but I’ve already noticed a degradation in its results since i started using it at the start of the year.

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Agreed. And the search engines returning AI generated pages masquerading as websites with real information is precisely why I spun up a searXNG instance. It actually helps a lot.