This is why search engines fucking suck now. Movies, music and shit come up before results on the actual thing you searched for, you should never have to type ladybug the insect, it should have to be ladybug animated series before you get results like this.
It makes me feel like I'm going insane because people look at me like I'm crazy when I complain about this. I legitimately think most people prefer search to work like this and I am completely baffled by it.
I find it funny that you are complaining about this not happening before while the comment directly above you has a dinosaur-era tumblr post describing the same problem
Trying to search any specific quote by Charlie Kirk within a day or two after his shooting was near impossible. at least on Google. It was about the ninth page of Google when I stopped seeing the majority of the search results being just articles about his shooting.
Google used to have an option for searching between specific dates, but many ones nowadays just have "last month, week, day" or whatever. Why the constant need for freshness? Let it simmer and wait...
Kagi is an amazing search engine, but their CEO is a textbook techbro, raised a few red flags for me. From "we're unpolitical" to "why would you need privacy by design, we say we don't collect data I don't get it"
But still, best search I EVER tried.
The results are actually from bing, searching directly on bing gives the same results and ddg is just querying that. Not defending anyone here but I hope this will make people hate Microsoft more. Fuck you Microsoft.
DDG's results are based in Bing's index, but they're not identical. I'm still waiting for DDG to act on a report I made of an extremely antisemitic (actual antisemitic, not anti-zionist) website made up mostly of freebooted content that shows up front and centre in a search I made. Bing doesn't show that site, despite the rest of the results for my query being similar.
where may i find an AI block list for ublock origin and what exactly does it do? (im imagining it blocks known AI websites from search results but that's a guess)
i looked for software for creating text files from file templates and all results were about c# stuff in visual studio. now, i do work with c#, but this happened across multiple devices and search engines and either way, i would prefer for search engine to not store and collect shit about me and just trust me, that i will specify c#, when thats what im looking for
Are you fucking with us? I am eating the onion? When I read that I thought you were doing a bit like that greentext with all the goofy fake British names for things.
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s@piefed.world · 76 pts · 340d
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 340d
Human Knuckles, holy shit! š¤£
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 339d
That's....odd. That echidna didn't even show up as a result but only on some other search.
Edit: i search "red toad" and while the mushroom is there, it only appear once. I think search result nowadays also based on your past search.
s@piefed.world · 21 pts · 339d
You searched āknuckleā singular, not āknucklesā plural. It gives the echidna with the plural search term, since thatās his name.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 339d
Huh. TIL.
antrosapien@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 339d
Google > Startpage > ddg > Yacy > Kagi
warm@kbin.earth · 47 pts · 340d
This is why search engines fucking suck now. Movies, music and shit come up before results on the actual thing you searched for, you should never have to type ladybug the insect, it should have to be ladybug animated series before you get results like this.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 340d
It makes me feel like I'm going insane because people look at me like I'm crazy when I complain about this. I legitimately think most people prefer search to work like this and I am completely baffled by it.
Pandantic@midwest.social · 6 pts · 340d
Thatās the algorithm, basing top results on number of views.
warm@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 340d
Yeah and I'm saying it sucks. Should be topical informational results at least for the first page.
itsralC@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 339d
I find it funny that you are complaining about this not happening before while the comment directly above you has a dinosaur-era tumblr post describing the same problem
warm@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 339d
You must be new to the internet if thats a dinosaur era post to you.
warm@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 339d
Im glad youve been following me around the internet so you can tell me what I have and havent said.
itsralC@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 339d
Damn I'm sorry if I offended you, I meant it as a lighthearted observation, no sarcasm on my part
Also what?
Samdell@lemmy.eco.br · 37 pts · 340d
They named an insect after the cartoon!?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 30 pts · 340d
Well, at least I know it's not that far from my human mind.
Once it took me a good minute to understand that when someone referred to "our furry friends", they were referring to animals...
Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 340d
Trying to search any specific quote by Charlie Kirk within a day or two after his shooting was near impossible. at least on Google. It was about the ninth page of Google when I stopped seeing the majority of the search results being just articles about his shooting.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 10 pts · 340d
You can filter by date
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 340d
No option for "older than x date".
Google used to have an option for searching between specific dates, but many ones nowadays just have "last month, week, day" or whatever. Why the constant need for freshness? Let it simmer and wait...
Serinus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 340d
Still exists. Select "use desktop site" in your browser.
Pic from just now.
mkwarman@lemmy.mkwarman.com · 22 pts · 340d
Kagi for reference
markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 340d
I wish Kagi weren't so expensive or it would be a no brainer for me
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 340d
I use it, but definitely agree it should have a cheaper tier. If they do a price bump I'm going to struggle to justify it.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 340d
It's a no brainer for me even with the cost. Worth it.
Incogni@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 339d
Kagi is an amazing search engine, but their CEO is a textbook techbro, raised a few red flags for me. From "we're unpolitical" to "why would you need privacy by design, we say we don't collect data I don't get it" But still, best search I EVER tried.
RogueBanana@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 340d
The results are actually from bing, searching directly on bing gives the same results and ddg is just querying that. Not defending anyone here but I hope this will make people hate Microsoft more. Fuck you Microsoft.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 340d
DDG's results are based in Bing's index, but they're not identical. I'm still waiting for DDG to act on a report I made of an extremely antisemitic (actual antisemitic, not anti-zionist) website made up mostly of freebooted content that shows up front and centre in a search I made. Bing doesn't show that site, despite the rest of the results for my query being similar.
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 340d
search is so bad currently I had to install an AI block list on ublock origin
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 339d
use ublacklist too
callyral@pawb.social · 2 pts · 339d
where may i find an AI block list for ublock origin and what exactly does it do? (im imagining it blocks known AI websites from search results but that's a guess)
riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 339d
i looked for software for creating text files from file templates and all results were about c# stuff in visual studio. now, i do work with c#, but this happened across multiple devices and search engines and either way, i would prefer for search engine to not store and collect shit about me and just trust me, that i will specify c#, when thats what im looking for
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 339d
Search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google have an "exclude" feature, prepend a word with "-"
Searching "rick" returns mostly Rick and Morty, while "rick -morty" excludes "morty", thus returning mostly Rick Astley
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 339d
I always thought they were called ladybirds
LarsIsCool@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 339d
Depends where you are from I guess
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
Ahhh it's a location thing! I thought I'd just like, Mandela effected myself my whole life š
silasmariner@programming.dev · 5 pts · 339d
Bishy Barnabees
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
Excuse me? š
silasmariner@programming.dev · 4 pts · 339d
Genuinely. They've got some mad names lol
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 339d
That's amazing š where's that name from?
silasmariner@programming.dev · 5 pts · 339d
Norfolk in the UK. Supposedly after a particularly flamboyant bishop
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 339d
That's fuckin awesome. Thank you! š„³
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 339d
Are you fucking with us? I am eating the onion? When I read that I thought you were doing a bit like that greentext with all the goofy fake British names for things.
silasmariner@programming.dev · 2 pts · 339d
I am absolutely not doing a bit: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/133526/what-is-the-origin-of-bishy-barney-bee although that's not how I woulda spelled it
Edit: spectator has a more plausible spelling in its article: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-a-ladybird-called-a-bishy-barnabee/
GammaGames@beehaw.org · 7 pts · 340d
ddg is objectively worse, but at least itās not google
chelatna@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 340d
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 339d
this is jonathan brandis and rodney dangerfield erasure duckduckgo