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What do you all search with? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I've mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with "site:reddit.com", but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well...?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve honestly thought about trying bing search with the new bing chat. It’s just a large change from searching now. It might be a good option thought for helping to curate answers more directly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you mean, curate answers more directly? I haven't really looked at bing recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So with Bing chat, which is more or less ChatGPT (just a model made specifically for Microsoft), it has the ability to crawl the web and get information into one place. So if you ask for reviews of a product, it’s able to curate them and give summaries so you can get an overviews. Granted, it’s still in super early beta and will sometimes give bad information, but a bit of fact checking is doable. I’ve played around with it for a bit and it’s fascinating. It works pretty well too but it’s not always right since it’s an AI attempting to learn. Hopefully that all makes sense 😅