Google's search results have become pretty much useless for anything but like... how to videos and song lyrics. I know there are better alternatives out there in the year of our lord 2022, but I've been using Google since before it was a verb. Any suggestions?

Also, how difficult is it to build an open source search engine? I imagine it's not something that a group of hexbear coders could manage, but if I'm wrong... we could really use a search engine with an explicitly leftwing bias.

  • neo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Later most of the internet’s information moved to walled gardens (Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and the ultimate death of hobby information on the internet: Discord) and video (indexing information in videos costs approx a bazillion dollars).

    This is precisely why forums, mailing lists, and public-visible membership sites like Mastodon or even Twitter are far, far better than fucking Discord. I hate when a FOSS project does development/support based on Discord. That information becomes so difficult to retrieve and share later.