• @[email protected]
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    I searched “fuck does typing fuck at the beginning of a google search get rid of the Ai” and the top result was the AI overview saying you can get rid of it with “a well placed F-bomb.”

    I think Google got rid of that trick already.

  • @[email protected]
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    3617 days ago

    They’ll do anything besides changing search engines. It’s a one time setting in most browsers.

    • @[email protected]
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      1117 days ago

      Duck duck go doesn’t seem to have recent Reddit results. And I’m not paying a monthly subscription. Seems like most others use Google’s indexing. You have a suggestion for a free non Google based search engine that indexs Reddit?

      • Maven (famous)
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        The reason they don’t include reddit is because of the same licensing thing that caused all the reddit apps to get shut down and helped boost Lemmy.

        The best non-google version that still gives you the recent reddit ones would be SearXNG and that’s because it’s a search aggregate tool that searching on Google and DDG and so on for you and then gives you the best results.

        Edit: it’s also self-hostable if you’d prefer that

        • @[email protected]
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          217 days ago

          For general stuff, yeah, but there’s a lot of discussion that still isn’t happening anywhere else.

        • @[email protected]
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          115 days ago

          Yeah, they said that like it’s a bad thing.

          Aw, gee, I won’t have pages of puns before I reach an actual discussion? Darn.

          • @[email protected]
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            115 days ago

            And most recent content is infested with LLM bots. It’s like using ChatGPT with extra steps.

      • BlueFootedPetey
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        215 days ago

        Yea im pretty ok with duck duck, UNLESS I am specifically looking for a smeddit answer, thats when I pull up evoogle.

    • Ricky Rigatoni
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      117 days ago

      Does changing search engines give them the satisfaction of cursing at a bad engine to make it work better?

    • @[email protected]M
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      1017 days ago

      Yeah…. They keep re-optioning it after a few weeks every time I completely disable it.

      • @[email protected]
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        317 days ago

        I simply deny duckduckgo the use of javascript. Works great unless you need image results.