Is AI search a bullshit generator?

Yes.

Confidently incorrect, and rudely ignores robots.txt, too! What more do you want from a search engine?

#ai #search #bullshit

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

We are committed to surfacing content from the Small Web in our search results, which makes Kagi uniquely different to any other search engine out there.

It is not only part of our mission to humanize the web but we genuinely feel that this improves the quality of search results and discoverability of high quality, relevant content (created by humans!)

How many years I needed to learn how to search my own posts. It's too easy. Type into the #search:

from:@username searchwords

It also works (for yourself) if you have disabled being in the public search.

Fun with #Google #Search:

The term:
Can bezocaine make you high
or just:
benzocaine high
yields search results headed:
"An AI Overview is not available for this search".

Searching:
are ducks blue
yields search results headed by an AI Overview. While searching:
are ducks blue -"benzocaine high"
yields search results with no AI Overview.

At least, that's been my experience this afternoon.

What Is The Future of Search Engines?

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/170ee8cf-a6f3-4d7d-8247-304feffb43b1

New study shows AI search engines get it wrong, way too often, and even make up citations and links too often - this is a real problem - plus more https://www.seroundtable.com/ai-search-engines-wrong-39038.html

So Mojeek is the only non-metasearch search engine currently in Europe, and is also maybe the worst search engine I have tried in many years. So leaving Kagi, who is both US based and using Russian Yandex - there are only meta-search engines using US search under the hood? Duckduckgo is US based. Qwant is not impressive and quite slow, Ecosia seemed promising, although both are still Bing, and will still be partially after joining forces on a new index. Startpage is Google, and owned by an ad company, claiming to enforce privacy, but works nicely (because its basically straight up Google) - so basically there is no real alternative? What do you use?

busybee: fluffy rambles: DuckDuckGo has DuckDuckWent all-in on AI https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/8719-DuckDuckGo-has-DuckDuckWent-all-in-on-AI #Enshittification #Search #Blog #AI

After some reading and thoughts, I have refreshed my ~15 years old browser + search engine setup. And the winners are @Vivaldi and Ecosia (and a note on @Qwant).

As a Netscape/Mozilla user, I can't remember when I became a Firefox user but really early on. All this time it has been my browser for everything (first) and then for personal use (see below). I have collected stickers, I have met Mozilla Foundation staff, and I even applied a long time ago. +

Frustrated with search results cluttered by ads and dominated by big brands? According to this report, you're not alone. Search should empower users, not prioritize profits.