I use Duckduckgo, but I realised these big(ish) search engines give me all the commercialised results. Duckduckgo has been going down the slope for years, but not at such a rate as Google or Bing has.

I want to have a search engine that gives me all the small blogs and personal sites.

Does something like this exist?

  • Daemon SilversteinEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Although Google indeed is the greatest indexer of the World Wide Web, unfortunately, the SEO and the AI makes it so hard to find something, for example, from before 2000s, such as BBS List archives, old blogosphere and personal webpages from that time, simply because they had no modern SEO nor AI keywords at that time. These old content are entirely free from AI-generated slop, (almost) free from dis- and mis-informations (because, at the time of BBS and Gopher, the Internet was still being born, and books were the main source of knowledge), so old content is sine qua non for one that’s seeking real knowledge.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      (almost) free from dis- and mis-informations (because, at the time of BBS and Gopher, the Internet was still being born

      Yeah, no. There was tons of bullshit. I ran across a post back then saying you could get psychic powers by eating the Americium sensor in your fire detector.

      • Daemon SilversteinEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, almost free. Nowadays there are LLMs (Google’s Gemini ahem) recommending people “to eat their daily rocks to be healthy”. Now I see exactly where the AI got these absurdity from. lol