I always thought they were called ladybirds
Bishy Barnabees
Excuse me? 😂
Genuinely. They’ve got some mad names lol
this is jonathan brandis and rodney dangerfield erasure duckduckgo
i looked for software for creating text files from file templates and all results were about c# stuff in visual studio. now i do work with c#, but this happened across multiple devices and search engines and either way, i would prefer for search engine to not store and collect shit about me and just trust me, that i will specify c#, when thats what im looking for
search is so bad currently I had to install an AI block list on ublock origin
where may i find an AI block list for ublock origin and what exactly does it do? (im imagining it blocks known AI websites from search results but that’s a guess)
use ublacklist too
This is why search engines fucking suck now. Movies, music and shit come up before results on the actual thing you searched for, you should never have to type ladybug the insect, it should have to be ladybug animated series before you get results like this.
I find it funny that you are complaining about this not happening before while the comment directly above you has a dinosaur-era tumblr post describing the same problem
It makes me feel like I’m going insane because people look at me like I’m crazy when I complain about this. I legitimately think most people prefer search to work like this and I am completely baffled by it.
That’s the algorithm, basing top results on niber of views.
Yeah and I’m saying it sucks. Should be topical informational results at least for the first page.
That’s…odd. That echidna didn’t even show up as a result but only on some other search.
Edit: i search “red toad” and while the mushroom is there, it only appear once. I think search result nowadays also based on your past search.
You searched “knuckle” singular, not “knuckles” plural. It gives the echidna with the plural search term, since that’s his name.
Huh. TIL.
Human Knuckles, holy shit! 🤣
They named an insect after the cartoon!?
Well, at least I know it’s not that far from my human mind.
Once it took me a good minute to understand that when someone referred to “our furry friends”, they were referring to animals…
Kagi for reference
Kagi is an amazing search engine, but their CEO is a textbook techbro, raised a few red flags for me. From “we’re unpolitical” to “why would you need privacy by design, we say we don’t collect data I don’t get it” But still, best search I EVER tried.
I wish Kagi weren’t so expensive or it would be a no brainer for me
I use it, but definitely agree it should have a cheaper tier. If they do a price bump I’m going to struggle to justify it.
It’s a no brainer for me even with the cost. Worth it.
The results are actually from bing, searching directly on bing gives the same results and ddg is just querying that. Not defending anyone here but I hope this will make people hate Microsoft more. Fuck you Microsoft.
DDG’s results are based in Bing’s index, but they’re not identical. I’m still waiting for DDG to act on a report I made of an extremely antisemitic (actual antisemitic, not anti-zionist) website made up mostly of freebooted content that shows up front and centre in a search I made. Bing doesn’t show that site, despite the rest of the results for my query being similar.
Trying to search any specific quote by Charlie Kirk within a day or two after his shooting was near impossible. at least on Google. It was about the ninth page of Google when I stopped seeing the majority of the search results being just articles about his shooting.
You can filter by date
No option for “older than x date”.
Google used to have an option for searching between specific dates, but many ones nowadays just have “last month, week, day” or whatever. Why the constant need for freshness? Let it simmer and wait…
Still exists. Select “use desktop site” in your browser.
Pic from just now.
ddg is objectively worse, but at least it’s not google
but I like miraculous…
