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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)
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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] Varyk 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

News orgs clinging to tradition.

i use archive.is for anything I really want to read.

most news is fluffy bullshit anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Agree. It’s an important part of media literacy these days.

For political news, I’m only interested in what was actually said, not what is reported to be said .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's just that Bing/DDG seem to promote news from these sites as if they're sponsored links... but without the disclosure.

[–] Varyk 2 points 1 month ago

bummer.

I see all the labeled sponsored links on Bing, but I generally get high quality results outside of those.

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

I'm pretty sure here in the states, a site is obligated to identify ad content and sponsored content, so when a big company like Microsoft or Alphabet is doing it (Bing and Google) it makes me wonder if there's been a recent carve-out or relaxation of the reg.

That makes the return adversarial to the end-user, hence the point of the regulations.