Can one of the search engines support an operator that lets me search for informational articles on non-commercial websites please #internetsearch #capitalism

Today is #FreeWebSearch Day! 🔎🌐

Free Web Search Day is an annual event promoting free, open and transparent #internetsearch.

As a partner in the @openwebsearcheu project, LRZ is working on the development of a European infrastructure for #websearch. Find out why this is important in this video: https://vimeo.com/1072290094/2ae3702438?share=copy

Further information about Free Web Search Day: https://freewebsearch.org/

#Internet #freeinternet #FWSD #FreeWebSearchDay

Advice from my former employer.

"Public media is facing cuts and new challenges and your trust means a lot. By choosing MPR News as a preferred source, you’re supporting independent, fact-checked local journalism."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/09/choose-mpr-news-how-to-get-google-to-show-our-stories-in-your-search-results

#PublicMedia #InternetSearch #journalism

Techdirt: New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’. “…now, as a sneaky amendment to a completely unrelated bill, Russia has passed a law that will criminalize searching for any content the Russian government decides is verboten.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/techdirt-new-russian-law-will-criminalize-internet-searches-for-extremist-content/

Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663227

Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.

#GoogleSearch #SERP #LLM #InternetSearch

I try not to talk about computery stuff too much on the fedi, because a) it's not my field, and b) the fedi already has too much computery talk on it for my tastes. However, what does everyone think of this setup for internet searches for mobile and desktop? Any suggestions for more non-GBY (google/bing/yandex) search engines with their own indexes to include? Or cool domain specific ones? Preferably not Brave either!

I've been using duckduckgo for a while but their new "Feature" of an AI assist was the final straw to try startpage.com

Are there any other good ones?

#InternetSearch #Internet

Now when I use DuckDuckGo to search the internet for casual information I get a special box of info called “Assist”. At the bottom of the box: “Auto-generated based on listed sources. May contain inaccuracies.”

What the? May contain inaccuracies? Why do it then? Just to waste my time?

What is this brave new world of possibly inaccurate information & what do I do about it?

Edit: Thanks to Mark C @markc568 for the solution: “Clivk the gear and you can turn it off for all searches”. It worked! Mark C is my hero!

#MayContainInaccuracies #DuckDuckGo #InternetSearch #InformationSearch #ArtificialIdiot #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses

🎉 Big news, everyone! Kagi Assistant is now available to ALL (*huge gasp*) users who are totally okay with paying $15/month for a "beautiful" interface and the privilege of unmanipulated internet searches. 🤔 Because, clearly, nothing screams "humanize the web" like yet another subscription model. 🚀💸
https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all #KagiAssistant #SubscriptionModel #UserExperience #InternetSearch #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619768

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine
https://kagi.com/
https://kagi.com/pricing

Thoughts about Kagi search engine : privacy
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1bmubkd/thoughts_about_kagi_search_engine/

#LLM #InternetSearch #Google #Kagi

Duck Duck Go is garbage, I’ve tried to stick with it, but I really need something better. Ugh. Not going to use G, tho.

#InternetSearch #DuckDuckGo

I Quit Google for ChatGPT/other AI Search: I’m Not Going Back
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/google-search-chatgpt-perplexity-gemini-6ac749d9
WSJ, ugh! Non-paywalled: https://archive.fo/hTPST

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43481261

Google searches (ALL ads-for search) SUCK!. Shopping websites too !! 🤬

#GoogleSearch #LLM #ChatGPT #InternetSearch

I asked the author, and indeed these are different, and she sent me a link to a page explaining the differences, a page which has, as its title, 'phrase 1 vs phrase 2: what are the differences'.

A properly functioning search engine would have placed this page at the top of the results. But in our current world of AI-influenced search, this page didn't show up.

#InternetSearch #SearchEngines #SearchWoes

There has been much discussion about how poor search results have become, and I just experienced it today. In editing some text from a colleague, I noticed two very similar phrases mentioned in separate paragraphs as though they might refer to different things, but it wasn't entirely clear. So I did a search (on a major engine) of the type 'phrase 1 vs phrase 2', and all that came up were pages about phrase 2.

(toot continues)

#InternetSearch #SearchEngines #SearchWoes

I just added some search engine recommendations to the lists.d repo

For this initial version, there are some interesting contenders:

• #DuckDuckGo just to be mentionted as one of the few mid search sites that can be used over @torproject / #Tor and is the #TorBrowser default search.

• #Ahmia which is an independently run #SearchEngine that crawls Tor but filters out the nastiest parts.

• @monocles / #monoclesSearch because it is a "hybrid aproach" doing #searx + filling the gaps with DuckDuckGo.

• @clew, (made by @amin ) which has it's own index but also includes "#bangs" to use external sites. It's focussed on speed and privacy.

• #FrogFind (by @ActionRetro ) also got listed because it's not just a #WebProxy for #VintageComputers but also able to search DuckDuckGo...

As always feel free to open up an issue / pull request if you want to see more entries...

#Search #WebSearch #InternetSearch #Enshittification #SearchEngine #SearchEngines #Searching #Privacy #OpenSource #FLOSS #OSS #FOSS #ListsD

I'm considering a Kagi subscription, but I don't want to give money to an AI product. I don't think they're making the world a better place, and I'm concerned about the data sourcing and quality. I don't want to legitimize that part of the product. I only want better search.

#kagi #search #internetsearch #ai #llm

22 papers from 68 authors – #ossym24 offered a broad spectrum of scientific work on on the topics of #internetsearch and #openwebsearch.

Vol. 6 of the International Open Search Symposium proceedings summarises the research results that were presented at the @LRZ_DE in Munich.

👉 Download the issue for free: https://e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php/OSSYM

🤩 We already look forward to the next year's conference – the #ossym25, taking place from 8 - 10 October 2025 at CSC - IT Center for Science.

@osf #opensearch