Trying to use a search engine after using LLMs exclusively feels like stepping back in time. I don’t know how people tolerate not getting immediate answers and having to read through a bunch of seo optimized garbage, much of which is nonsensical LLM drivel.
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Agreed, have probably using search engines 10% of what I used them a few years ago.
This makes me think of how the rise of AI is yet another blow in the death of the individual.
No more are we stumbling across blogs or personal websites, finding a helpful user in a forum or coming upon someone with a passion and a drive to share their knowledge online.
Now humanity has been extracted, refined and regurgitated in a convenient format.
The technology is amazing but I can't help but wonder what we are going to lose along the way.
I haven’t lost anything. Always found the comments useless unless it’s stack overflow. If I want to read about someone’s life, I’ll do that, but i don’t need to waste time trying to find knowledge. I would hope anything I put out is utilized exactly like that. Would have to waste anyone’s time.
Not really. People with a slave mindset are gonna be slaves.
I'm self sovereign, own my own LLM running locally (Mistral is great), and use it in combination with all the other forms of research and analysis.
can you let me know, what do you use?
It does. I've been using kagi.com which is a paid for search engine with ChatGPT, Claud, Llama, etc built in. It's really, really good!
Yeah I don’t even use Google anymore.
Search engines fill off around 2016.
Either because of post-Trump censorship, or diversity hires that don't know how to actually code but got hired anyways because they can make a hello world program.
Regardless of the case, we can all agree that search engines are not as good as they used to be, even the "alternative uncensored private" ones.
Kagi is the answer, try it out. Definitely my favorite search engine, it’s paid but you get a trial. No ads in results