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How to You Research Vet Products on the Post AI internet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello fellow lemmings,

I was a wiz at google in the early 2000s. I would find obscure forums for every interest and usually get some pretty good info. My research skills haven't aged well, and I'd like to get a bit more with it.

I use:

Rtings, for TVs and monitors
Consumer reports, for <500
Sites like scamreport where people rant about shitty companies not living up to their promises
glassdoor, to see what a company's employees think and how they are treated

How do you research your purchases when there is so much AI slop out there and google doesn't really work right anymore. Duck duck go and bing are marginally better. Are there trusted impartial review sites?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Reddit, and hopefully Lemmy will get there too ;)

Also, I quite like using Kagi search engine (paid) for its neat features. Things like

No Ads and no SEO to ruin the results.
Blocking/Lowering/Raising certain domains from the search results. So, I never have to even see the name of those turd websites that specialise in SEO-optimized or AI-vomited non-content.
Small Web, which only search small websites
Lenses (to focus search on certain type of content/websites)
Bangs and a few other more usual stuff one may also find in other search engines.
They also have optional AI-stuff, if that is your thing.

I've been using Kagi for almost a full year (it is supposed to renew in a couple days) and I've been loving every instant using it. Like really.

That said, it's not cheap. Here in Europe (I live in France), it's 130€ a year (tax-included) for their second-best plan, and I have not yet decided to renew because of that cost. So, the last couple weeks I've been forcing myself to use the search engines I used before Kagi to see how well it went (startpage & qwant, mainly). And, yeah, I already miss Kagi a lot ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Your comment is almost exclusively about kagi and not about an answer to ops question.

[–] Susaga 0 points 3 weeks ago

If someone spends money to use a search engine, they will find a way to force that search engine into any conversation they can. It's like how if you spend thousands on a bottle of wine, you'll show that bottle off whenever you have guests over.

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