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@0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet

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Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet

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@0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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SEO experts say a massive leak of 14,000 ranking features exposes the blueprint for how Google secretly curates the Internet.
  • @_sideffect@lemmy.world
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    81•1 year ago

    We all need to stop using this as our default search engine

    • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      11•1 year ago

      What do you suggest? Because even Mozilla uses Google for its search.

      • @KeefChief13@lemmy.world
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        33•1 year ago

        Duck duck?

      • @AncientMariner@lemm.ee
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        11•1 year ago

        As the default as it pays for web development. You can change this to DuckDuckGo in settings and I strongly recommend that you do.

      • @Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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        9•1 year ago

        https://searx.neocities.org/

        Right click the address bar to add it to your search bar

        • @auzas_1337@lemmy.zip
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          1•1 year ago

          I’ve been using Searx for a couple of weeks now. It seems to be working well.

      • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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        7•1 year ago

        If you don’t mind having to occasionally refresh the page due to search engine timeout, a public Searxng metasearch engine. I use one just to straight up bypass having to go to any specific search engine. Also allows me to see results from both gøøg|e and b*ng without having to go to either.

        • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          Thanks sound interesting.

      • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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        5•1 year ago

        I really like startpage, but I’m pretty sure it’s just Google with some tweaks

      • @ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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        4•1 year ago

        Why don’t you google it? /s

        • @Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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          1•1 year ago

          Lol absolutely it’s the only way.

      • @Napain@lemmy.ml
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        3•1 year ago

        startpage, had the Best results for me in the last couple of months, much better then google. and the anonymous view feature is handy and neat

      • @RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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        3•1 year ago

        I’m using qwant as my default now. It does well for most searches, but for map related things I still use google.

      • Starfer
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        3•1 year ago

        Kagi.

        • @Zrybew@lemmy.world
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          3•1 year ago

          Bruh, it asks for login. No thanks.

      • ☂️-
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        2•1 year ago

        i’m using a mix of ddg startpage and occasionally yandex, and its been good so far.

        if you have more good suggestions drop em here.

      • @aCosmicWave@lemm.ee
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        -6•1 year ago

        I know Lemmy likes to hate on AI, but my default search engine is http://perplexity.ai and it’s great

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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          According to Perplexity, that’s just Google Search with some OpenAI sprinkled on top… So yeah, I’m gonna hate on it lol.

          • @aCosmicWave@lemm.ee
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            What I like about it is that it’s trained on lots of different sources (including, but not limited to Google, and Bing search results). It then strips out the ads, SEO blog spam, and other nonsense and tries to return the most relevant info for my query. It is leagues better than pure Google. Also, it uses its own LLM unrelated to OpenAI.

            A bit unfortunate that I got downvoted for having an opinion and sharing it.

        • @gt5@lemm.ee
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          -1•1 year ago

          You are part of the problem

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