What's a good command-line web-search tool ?
I'm tired of leaving the keyboard to use search engines, and I see the number of web search services keep increasing so I wonder... why not a command line interface ?
I've heard some "AI" bots use APIs so why not a good old CLI ?
#websearch
Search Engine Land: 65% of AI chats have no commercial intent, new analysis finds. “Most AI chats have no commercial intent, users usually ask short questions, and most conversations end after just two turns. Those findings come from a recent analysis by Dan Petrovic, director of AI SEO agency Dejan, who examined millions of conversational turns to show how people actually use AI assistants.”
Any beings who also tinker with #websearch who will be at #39c3?
The Drinks Business: Brewery and distillery search engine launches. “A new internet search engine, dedicated to helping put beer and whisky drinkers in touch with some of the best breweries and distilleries in Scotland, will debut this week.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/12/the-drinks-business-brewery-and-distillery-search-engine-launches/
Search Engine Land: Google confirms it releases smaller, unannounced core updates. “Plus, a major Google core update is coming soon, which could bring significant ranking changes as it rolls out. Google added a new section to its core updates search developer documentation confirming it sometimes rolls out smaller, unannounced core updates. Google said this before, but now it’s stated […]
Search Engine Journal: Google Disputes Report Claiming Ads Are Coming To Gemini In 2026. “Google is publicly pushing back on an Adweek report that claimed the company told advertising clients it plans to bring ads to its Gemini AI chatbot next year. Dan Taylor, Google’s Vice President of Global Ads, responded directly on X shortly after the story published, calling the report inaccurate and […]
Yesterday i found this https://openwebindex.eu/ i guess that could be a cool startingpoint for a websearch #indieweb #websearch #web
Courthouse News Service: Federal judge largely sides with DOJ in finalizing remedy for Google search monopoly. “A federal judge on Friday released the final terms of a remedial plan meant to address tech giant Google’s monopoly over internet search, just over three months after ruling the company can keep major parts of its multitrillion-dollar company.”
Search Engine Land: Google’s Year in Search 2025: These trending topics spiked big. “Searches starting with ‘tell me about…’ jumped 70% from 2024 to 2025, while ‘how do I…’ queries hit an all-time high with a 25% year-over-year increase, Google said.”
The Guardian: New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles. “The New York Times sued an embattled artificial intelligence startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegally copying millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists’ work without permission en masse.”
MakeUseOf: YouTube search results are shockingly bad in 2025. “It’s interesting to take a closer examination of one specific area of big problems like this to break them down. I recently had a renewed realization of how poor YouTube’s search results are, which I shouldn’t be surprised at, given how Google’s results have degraded over recent years.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/makeuseof-youtube-search-results-are-shockingly-bad-in-2025/
Curlie - The Collector of URLs
Some search engines for the web are also based on @Curlie, among other things. You can also enter your websites in this so that they can be found more easily when people search for keywords that relate to your pages.
#websearch #searchengine #collection #url #curlie #internet #webfind #find #webpage #web #followerfriday #website #keywords
Search Engine Roundtable: 22 Years Covering The Search Industry. “Today marks the 22nd anniversary of when I started this site, the Search Engine Roundtable. I was 23 years old when I started this site, compiling what the search community and search industry was talking about and for almost half of my life now, I’ve been still doing the same thing, day in and day out.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/03/search-engine-roundtable-22-years-covering-the-search-industry/
Ứng dụng tìm kiếm web BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) mới cho iPhone, vượt trội hơn Claude, Perplexity & Apollo trong các truy vấn phức tạp. Ứng dụng miễn phí, sử dụng quy trình lặp để tìm kiếm & RAG nội dung, tránh quá tải cửa sổ ngữ cảnh. Đang thử nghiệm qua TestFlight.
#AI #chatbot #websearch #LocalLLaMA #trituequantao #timkiemweb
Search Engine Land: Google tests pushing searchers from AI Overviews with follow up questions to AI Mode. “This brings AI Mode more directly into Google Search and sadly, will likely result in fewer clicks to websites. Google is now officially testing pushing searchers from AI Overviews in Google Search into the AI Mode interface.” Gross. I think I am officially spending more time searching […]
Tega Brain's Slop Evader browser extension 🔍 filters Google searches to pre-ChatGPT era (before Nov 29, 2022), dodging AI slop on Reddit, YouTube & more! 🌐 A handy tool for cleaner web results. Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/pregpt_slop_evader_browser/ #AISlop #TechTools #WebSearch
Good idea should maybe be pre-implemented instead of an addon. Looks at #firefox and other browsers. 👀
The Conversation: Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search. “When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge about it compared to learning through a standard Google search.”
Press Gazette: ChatGPT took Press Gazette content then said that could not have happened. “ChatGPT accessed content from behind Press Gazette’s paywall and then gave a highly misleading explanation of what it had done. It’s a case which underlines the extent to which AI answer engines are flouting copyright and paywalls and also the sheer weirdness of some of the responses they give.”
Times of India: Baidu layoffs: China’s largest search engine may have cut jobs, multiple business units hit. “Baidu reported the second straight quarterly revenue decline, with total revenue falling 7% year-over-year in the third quarter. The company posted a net loss of 11.23 billion yuan ($1.59 billion) for the period.”
Search Engine Roundtable: Thanksgiving Google Search Ranking Update Volatility. “Google may have pushed out a Google search ranking update over the past couple of days. Although the chatter was somewhat quiet, it picked up today and some of the tools are also picking up on an update. I suspect the update and volatility started a couple of days ago, maybe on Monday, November 24th.”
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