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What search engine do you use? (self.programming)

submitted 7 months ago by firelizzard to c/programming

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Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’ve heard enough bad things about it to stay well away. Which is too bad bc it’s quite good atm! I just expect it to hoover up my data & get enshittified sooner than later & the CEO is Musk-level BSer 🤷‍♂️👍

[–] Slimy_hog 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What have you heard and where? I've not seen anything that indicates either of those things

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about beefbot, but this blog convinced me to not use kagi:

Why I Lost Faith in Kagi

[–] Slimy_hog 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh really? I never felt like that was convincing in any way especially since lot of the stuff in that blog is just uninformed (for example you don't have to pay taxes in many jurisdictions until you hit a certain threshold)

I'm not gonna try to convince you to use Kagi, but I just don't feel like that blog is full of good reasons not to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Correct, it was that blog And “Slimy_4og” you sound like one of the many disinformation AI bots farting around now

[–] Slimy_hog 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"You disagree with me so therefore you're an AI bot" sure is a take...

[–] SmartmanApps 2 points 6 months ago

I had someone say that to me, a Maths teacher, when I was trying to tell them where they were going wrong with their Maths! 😂And they were a programmer - no wonder all the e-calcs are wrong... (sigh)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well, it’s plausible you’ve ingested enough influence from enough propaganda sources that you yourself believe what they’ve told you, & you parrot it back out, which sorta makes you, in the limited context of one comment, functionally indistinguishable from a propaganda worker, who probably has been replaced by an AI bot bc those can do more of that work.

So ya can’t really blame me for the shorthand of just referring to you as one, yknow?

[–] Slimy_hog 1 points 6 months ago

What the hell are you talking about?