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   Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 (joe_hill@union.place)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:51:49 JST Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦

   @josh0
   Search engines basically suck today. As recently as two years ago, it was pretty easy to find even the most obscure references after refining your search terms. (I mostly searched for vintage car, motorcycle, political, and rock music references)

   These days it’s pathetic. You get 20 of the most recent uses of any key search term. I stopped using Google because of it, but now Duck Duck Go is just as lame.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:53:08 JST Rich Felker

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     • Ariaflame

     @ariaflame @Joe_Hill @josh0 You can turn it off (and all the other shit) appending ?udm=14 to the Google query URL. And you can replace your default browser search function to do this all the time.

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     Ariaflame (ariaflame@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:53:09 JST Ariaflame

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     @Joe_Hill @josh0 At least it's easier to turn off the AI options in DDG. And it's basically backed up by bing anyway

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:58:09 JST Rich Felker

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     @ariaflame @Joe_Hill @josh0 Instructions for Firefox in this thread: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/112490402866430382