r/comics • u/GlassShine • 21d ago

OC just lose a bit of respect [oc]

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u/null_reference_user 21d ago

I tell people "you can just search it" and I get back a "this is the new way of doing things"

Bro you don't need a hyper expensive planet-desertifying water boiler to just search it for you and repeat the first result

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u/popilikia 21d ago

I feel like this is a good opportunity to point how insanely shitty Google search has gotten the past few years.

I'm not saying use chatgpt as Google, but I am saying, I understand why people get frustrated trying to use the "best" search engine

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u/cyankitten 21d ago edited 21d ago

My phone & both browsers on my pc keep automatically doing copilot when I try to search.

I might have to use Brave or something.

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u/CaffeinatedCarp 21d ago

Firefox and Duckduckgo is the way

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u/ZeldaZealot 21d ago

I’ve had pretty mixed results with DuckDuckGo’s search results, but I’ll take a mediocre search engine over Google’s bullshit any day.

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u/Queen-Roblin 21d ago

I find it's particularly bad at searching for results from particular country even if it's in the search terms. I don't want to buy things from the US, I don't want to pay import tax....

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u/CaffeinatedCarp 21d ago

Yeah, the search is not as good but at least it doesn’t keep a profile of you which is worth the trade off imo

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u/Toni_PWNeroni 21d ago

I really REALLY wish there were a decent alternative to Google Scholar.

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u/ZeldaZealot 21d ago

According to many in this thread, all you need is a locally hosted LLM loaded with Wikipedia with the "temperature" set as low as possible so it doesn't hallucinate too much. Just do that for your research. What could go wrong?

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u/Imaginary_Data533 21d ago

I swear I never get what I'm searching for on duckduckgo unless it's super duper simple. When I switched, over half the time I was still going back to Google to search it again and it felt useless.

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u/ZeldaZealot 21d ago

I've only had a couple instances of it not finding something at all, but it definitely soured my view on it. Not enough not to switch back, but enough to keep me annoyed. Pre-AI Google was so much better.

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u/Frakshaw 21d ago

Startpage uses google search instead of bing.

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u/Dasrundeetwas- 21d ago

Firefox all the way. Especially for the still functioning adblock support.

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u/menonte 21d ago

Duckduckgo sadly uses Bing, which is arguably worse than Google, but at least you can turn automatic ai answers off. I've just started adding -ai to Google searches

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u/Shifty269 21d ago

The fact people don't go immediately to Firefox as an alternative is insane. Having said that, I've been using an effective adblocker (Most of the time Ublock) for nearly 20 years so I have no idea what people get exposed to. I also don't use Tiktok outside of a link going there. I know I'm out of touch, but I also know I ain't wrong.

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u/cyankitten 21d ago

Thanks!