Trying alternative #SearchEngines and it seems @StartpageSearch has stopped posting on #Mastodon (even stopped posting their own articles) and only posts on the fascist bird site... and though it's based in the EU (but uses US based Bing AND Google on its back end) I'm trying their settings but I can only set my Search Location to US places? 
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Oh boy, another revolutionary idea to save search engines from the horror of users who can’t articulate their needs 
. Let’s ditch the scary #chatbots and embrace the magic of MattersRank—because clearly, what we need is more personalized #chaos and less fun on the internet 
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https://www.matterrank.ai/mission #revolutionaryideas #MattersRank #searchengines #personalization #HackerNews #ngated
MatterRankMatterRank - Customizable Search EnginesBuild personalized search engines that score and rank results based on what matters to you.
[veille] et Isidore.science me remonte ce matin comme il se doit via mes alertes : Pouyllau S., « Utiliser ISIDORE pour faire sa recherche », doi:10.5281/zenodo.15099274 => https://zenodo.org/records/15099274
#search #searchengines #howto #tools #shs #openscience #openaccess #humanties #HN #veille
ZenodoUtiliser ISIDORE pour faire sa rechercheLe webinaire vise à présenter les fonctionnalités de recherche et les possibilités d'amélioration de la découvrabilité des données de la recherche et des publications en sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) via le moteur de recherche académique ISIDORE. ISIDORE permet aux chercheurs et étudiants d'accéder à divers types de documents tels que des articles, thèses, rapports, et livres. La plateforme offre des fonctionnalités avancées de recherche, comme le filtrage par type de document, date de publication, ou discipline. Elle propose également des outils de visualisation et d'analyse des données pour mieux comprendre les tendances dans le domaine des SHS. En intégrant ISIDORE dans leur processus de recherche, les utilisateurs peuvent enrichir leurs travaux avec des sources fiables et contribuer à la diffusion de la recherche en SHS. La présentation permettra aux participants de découvrir les principales fonctionnalités de recherche d'ISIDORE et d'explorer ses outils de visualisation et d'analyse.
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There's a new one called Maapl. I've tried it but not enough to know how it compares.
maapl.netmaaplSearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine
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@Yorkshiregeek This is the best #lifehack for #searchengines I have seen all week.
All my f#@%ing searches with have mother f#@%ing swear words in the f#@%ing query from now on.
I added back the "how to add DuckDuckStart to your browser" page to DDS
https://duckduckstart.com/browser
I also fixed some CSS, too!
happy searching!
DuckDuckStartDuckDuckStartUse DuckDuckGo for !bangs and StartPage for everything else.
Breaking news: Search engine crawlers are taking longer coffee breaks than your average office worker! 
Apparently, shrinking memory means faster crawling... except when it doesn't, because the last 0.1% is on vacation for a week! 
Clearly, Pareto forgot to distribute common sense!
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_117_crawl_order/ #SearchEngines #CoffeeBreaks #TechHumor #CrawlingChallenges #ParetoPrinciple #MemoryManagement #HackerNews #ngated
www.marginalia.nu · Crawl Order and DisorderA problem the search engine’s crawler has struggled with for some time is that it takes a fairly long time to finish up, usually spending several days wrapping up the final few domains.
This has been actualized recently, since the migration to slop crawl data has dropped memory requirements of the crawler by something like 80%, and as such I’ve been able to increase the number of crawling tasks, which has led to a bizarre case where 99.
#Google #SearchEngines #WebSearch #hubris
"A new profile of Elizabeth Reid, the head of Google Search, confirms that Google is moving away from its longstanding model of sending its users to websites. As one former unnamed senior executive put it: 'Giving traffic to publisher sites is kind of a necessary evil.'"
https://searchengineland.com/google-traffic-publishers-necessary-evil-453562
Search Engine Land · Ex-Google exec: Giving traffic to publishers 'a necessary evil'In a newly published profile, Google's Head of Search Elizabeth Reid also said the Google search bar will become less prominent over time.
Get Your Perk On! Exclusive Presearch Investor Rewards and Shareholder Benefits! https://presearch.medium.com/get-your-perk-on-exclusive-presearch-investor-rewards-and-shareholder-benefits-2e39741a1fbb?source=rss-470c1c5018aa------2 #searchengines #crowdfunding #investing #privacy #crypto
Medium · 🎁 Get Your Perk On! Exclusive Presearch Investor Rewards and Shareholder Benefits!
Say you have a privacy promise website like duckduckgo. Wouldn't it be prudent to categorise website results according to privacy?
Ideally I want the top results to come from privacy promise websites that don't track or retain my data.
I'd also more happily contribute if the payment system was heavily anonymous and untracked too. Paying with cryptocurrency is superior in this.
404 Media: Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’. “Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it ‘a true work of art’ in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results.”
AFP: AI startup Perplexity confirms interest to buy TikTok. “Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity on Friday expressed its interest in buying TikTok, which faces a deadline to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned in the United States. Perplexity in a blog post laid out a vision for integrating its AI-powered internet search capabilities with the popular video-snippet sharing […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/afp-ai-startup-perplexity-confirms-interest-to-buy-tiktok/
https://www.europesays.com/1934046/ Google lawsuit accuses Maryland man of creating ‘fake business listings’ #america #business #company #CompanyNews #Crime #CrimeU0026Justice #Cyber #CyberCrime #Engines #fraud #google #GoogleInc #Inc. #Justice #Lawsuits #legal #Maryland #Modular #ModularStory #Negative #network #NetworkTrending #News #Overall #OverallNegative #search #SearchEngines #story #trending #u0026 #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
Search Engine Journal: Google Provides Timeline To Improve Publishers’ Search Visibility. “Google has publicly committed to December 31 as a deadline for improving how independent publishers appear in search results. This timeline emerged during an exchange on X between Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, and several concerned publishers.” I will be very happy if this happens. […]
The best option was wrong 37% of the time, the worst 94% of the time.
Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time
https://futurism.com/study-ai-search-wrong
#ai #seo #searchengines
Futurism · Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time
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@danie10 Something came in to my mind:
When #searchengines do not list results from #peertube it is no surprise, that people don't find that content!
I don´t know about others, but I'm using #qwant since long now and they don't. I just messaged them via their contact form about that. Don't know, if anybody ever really thought about that.
Wondering, if @Qwant is official... ^^
Anthropic Expands Claude with Web Search, Challenging AI-Powered Search Rivals
#AI #GenAI #AISearch #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #AIAssistant #WebSearch #SearchEngines
Search Engine Roundtable: Google Tests AI Overviews In Middle Of Search Results Page. UGH. “Google is testing moving the AI Overviews from the top position of the search results page (also known as position zero), to the middle of the search results page. We saw Google test this with featured snippets over the years, so it makes sense Google would test this with AI Overviews.”
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The Verge: Google Search charged with breaking EU antitrust rules. “Google is breaking European antitrust laws by favoring its own Shopping, Hotels, and Flights search services over rival comparison providers, according to the European Commission. The EU announced in its preliminary ruling today that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had also violated anti-steering rules under the Digital […]
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