This week we have @amin for the #OverUnder 012!
His views on the following topics:
- #Libraries
- #severance
- #searchEngines
- #MassSurveillance
- #Curry
#fediverse #blog #fediverse #web
#100DaysToOffload : 040/100
HydeTrying alternative #SearchEngines and it seems @StartpageSearch has stopped posting on #Mastodon (even stopped posting their own articles) and only posts on the fascist bird site... and though it's based in the EU (but uses US based Bing AND Google on its back end) I'm trying their settings but I can only set my Search Location to US places? 
[veille] et Isidore.science me remonte ce matin comme il se doit via mes alertes : Pouyllau S., « Utiliser ISIDORE pour faire sa recherche », doi:10.5281/zenodo.15099274 => https://zenodo.org/records/15099274
#search #searchengines #howto #tools #shs #openscience #openaccess #humanties #HN #veille
#Google #SearchEngines #WebSearch #hubris
"A new profile of Elizabeth Reid, the head of Google Search, confirms that Google is moving away from its longstanding model of sending its users to websites. As one former unnamed senior executive put it: 'Giving traffic to publisher sites is kind of a necessary evil.'"
https://searchengineland.com/google-traffic-publishers-necessary-evil-453562
https://www.europesays.com/1934046/ Google lawsuit accuses Maryland man of creating ‘fake business listings’ #america #business #company #CompanyNews #Crime #CrimeU0026Justice #Cyber #CyberCrime #Engines #fraud #google #GoogleInc #Inc. #Justice #Lawsuits #legal #Maryland #Modular #ModularStory #Negative #network #NetworkTrending #News #Overall #OverallNegative #search #SearchEngines #story #trending #u0026 #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
@danie10 Something came in to my mind:
When #searchengines do not list results from #peertube it is no surprise, that people don't find that content!
I don´t know about others, but I'm using #qwant since long now and they don't. I just messaged them via their contact form about that. Don't know, if anybody ever really thought about that.
Wondering, if @Qwant is official... ^^
I have no idea what’s going on …
I search for “maapl.net” and I get everything except for maapl.net
Is it being blocked my microsoft (DuckDuckGo uses Bing)?
I was able to get to it a few days ago (great search I/F by the way, based on searxing search metaengine/db)
Now, zip! Can’t get to it.
Anyone else not seeing it in their search engines? Does anyone know why?
https://maapl.net
So I discovered something neat. Ignore the VULGARITY, I'm trying to trip the family safe stuff. And 'cock' has enough homographs to plausibly not want to straight up filter it, like "fuck nuts".
But using this technique, appending a symbol+number or number/letter, it pulls other definitions from whatever site they're scraping and highlights them.
Took a few minutes but I got it to finally admit that sometimes 'cock' can be dirty. Take a shower.
63% of my followers are #discoverable, only 34% are #indexable (by #searchengines). Most new followers are still coming from my prev. #mastodon #instance, #fosstodon.org. Might be the local timeline, it was way more interesting/less random than here.
Want to know about your followers, too? Check out this tool I’ve built (hosted on the #IPFS). It’s a non-commercial side project; not collecting any data – simply sharing what I’ve built:
https://fedi--followers-data0-one.ipns.dweb.link
(Last plug for a while, I promise)
#AI #Search Has A Citation Problem
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
"We Compared Eight AI #SearchEngines. They’re All Bad at Citing #News."
This is going to create more disinfo problems, for sure. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
#ai #chatgpt #copilot #searchengines #fakenews #disinfo #hallucinations #DeepSeek #tech #llm #llms
Search Engine Land: As AI scraping surges, AI search traffic fails to follow: Report. “Google’s average search click-through rate (CTR) was 8.63%, according to the report. However, the CTR for AI search engines was 0.74% and 0.33% CTR for AI chatbots. That means AI search sends 91% fewer referrals and chatbots send 96% less than traditional search.”
#AI #SearchEngines #publishers #WebSearch #Unsustainability
'Google’s average search click-through rate (CTR) was 8.63%, according to the report. However, the CTR for AI search engines was 0.74% and 0.33% CTR for AI chatbots. That means AI search sends 91% fewer referrals and chatbots send 96% less than traditional search.'
https://searchengineland.com/ai-scraping-ai-search-traffic-report-453160
https://thecanadian.social/@mike/114141433777294978
This… is worth considering as an alternative to Bing and Google. Much better results, no freeking marketing and self-serving algorithms here…
@mike bloody hell, where have you been hiding this search engine? It’s a bloody beauty mate.
DOJ Reinforces Demand to Break Up Google’s Search Monopoly - In a court filing on Friday, the government signaled a continuation of tough regulatory p... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/technology/trump-google-search-antitrust.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #computersandtheinternet #decisionsandverdicts #justicedepartment #searchengines #mehtaamitp #googleinc
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites reveals AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search. 
#AI #SearchEngines #Google #DigitalMarketing #ReferralTraffic #TechNews #SEO #ContentLicensing
@ai6yr Don’t mean to hijack the thread, about search engines, but seems the same goes for browsers.
Many people recommend Vivaldi. A blog post they created just a couple months ago says Vivaldi won’t use ai, but if you look at their new Translate Feature, it’s run by ai. Did they do an about-face? Or am I misunderstanding? Is it a feature you can just turn off? https://vivaldi.com/features/translate/ Not finding many people talking about this.
Ensh**tification
#searchengines #browsers
Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms - Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alt... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html #computersandtheinternet #bluesky(socialnetwork) #artificialintelligence #searchengines #flipboardinc #socialmedia #webbrowsers #mikemccue #surf
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