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The web was already flooded with human generated spam, adding AI spam to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't find useful content on the vast majority of webpages.
What we really need is a better search engine, one that doesn't include low quality content... that might be something AI can help with.
That used to be Google, when they were interested in providing quality results and showing ads alongside those results, instead of just.. being an ad company.
Before that, it was Yahoo, when they were interested in providing quality results, and showing ads, instead of just being an ad company.
Before that, it was AltaVista, when they were...
...Ask Jeeves...
We'll see who's next.
Don't forget Lycos!
And HotBot.
And WebCrawler!
And MetaCrawler!
Mid late nineties, WC was my favorite. Felt like it had the best results.
Same here.
Go get it!
I've been hearing Kagi is very good but i don't know if I'm ready to start paying for a search engine. Given the direction things are headed through, it could be worth considering
I can say that kagi is really good, yes. I don't know if google search was actually ever this good on its own, but I'm finding it a real breath of fresh air
It's a lot better value for families, too. Much like spotify. I wouldn't pay £8/m for myself, but I would pay £16 for 6 people.
I've been looking at those plans, yeah... Currently on the lowest tier for myself, and it is pricey but personally worth it, and I want to support the project
You can even share the same account with your family because your queries are not logged and won't show up in another computer
Time to bring back web rings lmao
We've come, uh, full circle indeed
Kagi basically did with Smallweb
I've switched to perplexity.ai. yes it's AI, but it gives me the answer I was looking for in a short snippet of information. I can then go scour the sources if I want too. It's completely replaced Google for me.
Yes, but the sheer volume of trash these AIs can generate will be an even bigger problem that needs addressing.
Plausable sounding trash, specifically. More plausable than what extremely low paid humans can put out.
Ugh i used stable diffusion for a few weeks and even with better prompt engineering it still felt like generative trash. Guess i wasn't creative enough in prompting because I've seen some great stuff from others.
"The river was already flooded with human generated pollution, adding truckloads of nuclear waste to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't go swimming or eat the fish in the majority of waterways."
No it can't.
And also it's already a solved problem. Once again - web rings, web directories, communities and acquaintances. The Web is not deus ex machina. It's a system to be used to make your hands longer, your memory bigger, your eyes sharper etc.
right - time to just focus on some news that have been vetted by some trustworthy organization. or a ministry - that focusses on truth or something.