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Indie/smallweb is promising and is growing.
There are indieweb dedicated spaces to search for these sites. Such as https://theindex.fyi/
It's a return to a very non-corporate web experience.
The search results only have slop articles because it's increasingly difficult to find anything else. I heard that recent estimates are indicating about 50% of the content of the internet is already AI generated, and it's only going to get worse, and it's going to keep getting worse very rapidly. "Search" in the way we understand it is obsolete. I don't know what the future of content discovery for real humans is going to look like, but I'm confident it's not going to look anything like search. That's broken and it's never coming back.
I don’t know what the future of content discovery for real humans is going to look like, but I’m confident it’s not going to look anything like search. That’s broken and it’s never coming back.
We should go back to web rings and curated lists of useful links.
Us internet dinosaurs remember those days. It kind of sucked, but it would defeat the slop if you only link to human-made websites and those websites only link to human-made websites, etc.
Might as well just go straight to the source ... if you can find the source ... if the source isn't just more slop.
On DDG, You can send feedback about each result. I dunno if it actually does any good.
- tap the three dot button next to the result
- tap “share feedback about this site”
Ooooh thanks for this!
Have you tried noai.DuckDuckGo.com? I’m curious if it gives different results.
Pretty sure that just disables DDG's AI. It doesn't do anything to filter out AI articles.
I think you forgot to finish the question in the post title
I'm confused. The first line of the body of the post is the rest of the question.
That's funny. I do the opposite. I use the AI to do the searching and finding results of suitable quality is part of the prompt....
^This
Unless your AI is grok or meta obviously
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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