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This post is over a year old, but for the record;

@gavinellis
> Where could the country turn if it did not have google as its primary search engine

* Mojeek

* Brave

* Bing, and its many front-ends (eg DuckDuckGo)

There used to be many more alternatives. But Goggle has done a better job making its search the default in a wide range of OS and browsers, and building a surveillance ad business to subsidise it. Solve those problems and new search options will emerge.

#search#WebSearch
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I am still getting a handle on the full power of #Mastodon #search capabilities, but the ability to combine queries and have queries that target specific data is very powerful. I thought I would share an example.

I wanted to catch up on reporting on threats to public federal research funding for universities in the last 1-2 days. This query got me what I was looking for:

“After:2025-04-01 from:\@npr\@flipboard.com fund”

Change the news site account to suit your needs, of course.

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Ummm, not sure Bing knows what this word means? Bing returned zero results to the word "verisimilitude" other than a mature content warning. Google returned ... a definition. As George W. might say, "That's some weird sh**."

A screenshot of a Microsoft Bing search result. The search box has the word "verisimilitude" in it. There is a row of tabs describing different types of search results, with the "all" tab highlighted. Below that there are no search results. Instead, there is a paragraph of text that says "Your current Bing SafeSearch setting filters out results that might return adult content." Then there is a change settings button.
#Microsoft#Search#Bing
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Was trying a duckduckgo search for a restaurant in town, and I clicked on a link to read it, then came back to the search results. Suddenly a bunch of links disappeared and the first two links were now tripadvisor.

I selected hide site from these results and immediately a tripadvisor link from another url (different country) pops up. I kind of kept going and hiding about 15 results and new tripadvisor links kept popping up. This went on until "Search query entered was too long. Please shorten and try again."

So is this a bing-underneath thing, or direct enshittification of duckduckgo?

This is while using uBlockOrigin, but that didn't help, I didn't see any way that the ads differed from the normal links either.

#search#searchEngine#enshittification
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I want a browser add-on like an ad-blocker, that doesn't block sites, but marks domains in search results with things like:

- pay walled
- requires email
- pop-up modals
- AI written

So that I can choose whether or not to visit that domain, depending on what else is in the search results.

#search#enshittification
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Châteauguay police seek public's help to find missing 71-year-old woman
Châteauguay police are seeking the public's help to locate a missing 71-year-old woman. A helicopter with the Sûreté du Québec is expected to help with search efforts.
#police #missing #search #Châteauguay #News #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mi

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