so apparently google search is just shitty now, that's the takeaway here.
I searched for Magic The Gathering cards earlier on my phone (FireFox mobile), and got YouTube shorts in the results. This was in addition to a large amount of useless info panels and junk in the search results. I just wanted the official links or even an Amazon URL to the upcoming precons, not slowly regurgitated info!
It would be funny, if it weren’t painfully true. DuckDuckGo sucks just as bad as Google. I hear there is a good search engine, but it costs money to use. Shocking. Maybe they are all the same company, making shitty free services to try to steer you to paying for better services.
Maybe they are all the same company, making shitty free services to try to steer you to paying for better services.
Do you expect free services with no catch? You either pay with money or with something else
I use DDG at home, or Bing at work, for most topics they auto generate cards that give you the answer from the get go like 70% of the time
That's why I use Copilot.
Asked it for the official documentation, got a link to the /current/ documentation's chapter on operators. Then asked for the heading about the IN operator and it gave me all four of the numbers. No need to wade through outdated or irrelevant results.
I don't mean to sour the funny, because it is funny/sad indeed, but
If you know you want the info from the official docs, why not do a search that forces results from that site, or search just for the official docs and then find the page you're after on the docs themselves?
Must be an old screenshot because there's now half a page of Gemini AI garbage at the very top now.
Highly recommend using the uBlacklist extensions to filter out the garbage, spam, copycat, useless sites that somehow seem to always beat out legitimate sources in SEO.
Because Google decided years ago that relevancy is less important than profitability.
This is why I've really grown attached to Kagi (paid search engine).
It's made the internet usable again. I'm honestly surprised how much of difference there is. I'd really recommend people give it a shot. (there's a free trial for it)
Isn't Kagi an AI company with a bunch of shady shit going on? I'm always extremely skeptical of these posts.
I never heard anything before this, so I looked around, and there's definitely some posts about it.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/
I'll have to give them a read.
For now, ignore my recommendation, as I don't yet fully know my stance on this, with the information provided.
However, I can say that I've been super happy with the search results. I don't use their email service. Just the search and the access to all of the LLMs that are out there.
I only use it for web stuff but W3Schools is usually pretty solid so I wouldn’t be mad having that as a first result.
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