Sometimes I add something like "blog" before:2019 to my searches because I want "old" google and not their shiny newer profoundly shitty search. Plus I tend to really like blog results. Wwithout before:2019 google is incredibly insistent in "helping" me by mostly (or entirely) ignoring the word "blog" even if it's in double quotes.
huh thanks for the tip, being on the younger side i've always only ever used the main corporation websites - never really know how to venture outside the main lot
Google calls such stuff advanced operators. They used to be fantastic tools. But the problem now is that google occasionally, intentionally breaks some of them to be "helpful". And you can't disable such help.
Letting corporations control how we access information was always a mistake. Historians will curse us, and the evidence will be a hole.
There must be consequences for the fuckers who did this. They have names and addresses.
I use ChatGPT to learn all kinds of stuff. I say it's replaced 50% of my searches. Not that it's always right, but neither is all the blogspam.
jfc please have some dignity, you know you can do better than that
This restaurant has a terrible food safety rating so I just eat off their floor.
Say how and I'll do it. Kagi+ChatGPT is getting me the quickest answers.
"I wave my arms blindly in the dark and every so often I touch something before tripping on the furniture"
Literally any thing that isn't trained on blogspam or notorious for making up shit. You're basically using a magic 8-ball to "learn" it just repeats what you say back at you. Its useless for research.
Kagi+ChatGPT is getting me the quickest answers.
If a human "expert" was a known liar and fantasist who never provided sources or footnotes - would you listen to them? And if you did - why?
I think people are overly critical - it is alright for some things, and it has gotten things right for me before, but generally I have to spend so much time double checking that it's right that it isn't worth the time. If it gets a detail wrong 10-15% of the time, then I have to check it every time.
I do find it useful for admin tasks though.
