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Oh and any search engine yields static slop pages numbering in the 10's of thousands of also ai slop worthless pages.
My favorite is when I search for how to do something in Blender (the 3d modeling and animation program) only realize that I'm wasting my time reading a slop article on what is ostensibly a cooking website because someone told their AI to write a bunch of articles on how to use a blender (the kitchen appliance) and couldn't be bothered to so much as read the titles before publishing them.
I just wanted to animate a rippling toroid and now I have a litre of hummus in my fridge
Task successfully failed(?).
I’ve taken to avoiding anything made after AI and searching for before:2023 to get away from the worst garbage.
Mind you, the web has been nearly unusable since 2018ish, so I tend to go for even older products. Feels like witnessing the fall of Rome, having to go to these lengths just to find basic info.
Google straight up ignores requests for filtering by age of article now.
DuckDuckGo respects your consent!
I think I’ve used google twice in the last year. Ddg works about as well as google, at this point
Interesting, I wonder how Kagi does it
To answer the three different interpretations of your comment.
Kagi is beholden to your dollar, not ads. If they suck, people leave. Google is not beholden to your dollar, they are beholden to ad dollars.
The other comment explained the interface, but they date via crawl date. A web crawler found it on that date, so it sprang into existence on that day.
It’s an absolute mystery how a trillion dollar is fucking up badly enough to eat into its monopoly, I agree.
Kagi has a time filter right in the search to choose past year, two year, etc. I believe. I’ve definitely used the past year before.