• holycrap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I think this has as much to do with Google being shit at finding stuff lately as it does llms like chatGPT

    • Calyhre@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You can even see the decline in posts and votes before GPT became mainstream. This definitely look more like search engine failing to get rid of those cheap copycats.

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        1 year ago

        Agreed. For me, making it so that the search engine ignores -string was one of the biggest set backs.

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          1 year ago

          the search engine ignores -string

          WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder…

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            1 year ago

            Hyphen (-) means you don’t want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.

            Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.

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          1 year ago

          On Google and on Duck Duck Go too. On DDG you can’t get rid of the over-optimized websites anymore even if you use -“website name”. Luckily -site:address still works.

          • cschreib@programming.dev
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            1 year ago

            That’s crazy. Google/DDG bloat from SEO websites had already driven me out a while ago, so I hadn’t noticed. I’ve been using Kagi for a few months now, and I find I can trust my search results again. Being able to permanently downgrade or even block a given website is an awesome feature, I would recommend it just for that.

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              1 year ago

              Hmm, not really used to the idea of paying for search, but I understand.

              Is it good at filtering AI generated sites and sites that are clearly copy pasted. Or do you kind of have to identify that yourself and manually block?

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                1 year ago

                I think it’s worth testing it with the free 100 searches. All you need is an email address (no credit card unless you’re actually subscribing). I’ve only been using it a few days but I don’t think it filters out AI generated sites. But you can set a ranking by site (block, lower, normal, raise, pin) so you can make stack overflow be priorised and block quora.

                They have a ranking board of top sites in each category so you can go through it and set the rank of a bunch of sites upfront.