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[–] [email protected] 178 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I don't need a 27-page novel to know the temperature and time to cook something. I also don't want to he directed to Pintrest and be required to have an account. Honestly, I've started using Bing more often.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah honestly. The Google ad-based search system created a set of incentives that just destroyed the internet! I miss the days when people created their own fun little quirky websites like Ian's Shoelace Site. That used to be every site on the internet!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But do you remember Geocities?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Every 3-5 years, I go and check on my Angelfire. It's still there today.

https://ibb.co/WPH835P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Your old site isn’t just fire, it’s angelfire!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Lucky! Mine's gone, and I honestly can't remember if I deleted it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Am I old if I remember xoom?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don’t need a 27-page novel to know the temperature and time to cook something.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would like a Firefox add-on that filters out sites where recipe ingredients are measured in cups and the recipes contain butter and sugar when they shouldn't, thanks very much

Adding "UK" used to work, but doesn't anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the recipes contain butter when they shouldn't

But noodles aren't that difficult to make

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I also don't want to need an add-on for every niche thing I like to look at.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

The Google habit is hit the third link, scroll to fourth paragraph, your answer should be around there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Try Brave Search, Duckduckgo, Startpage, or Searxng. For more detail on these recommendation (that I definitely did not just steal), check out the Privacy Guides page, or The New Oil for a different, albeit overlapping, set of recommendations and take on search engines.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Best not to use brave since it's a front for crypto. Other's are okay

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

DuckDuckGo has recently become a not very useful search engine too, it still has way way better queries than Google though.

Going back usually shuffles the search results and after like 5 results there's just a bunch of random entries based on your geolocation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I disagree! It's best to not use Brave since it's a front for a homophobe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Avoid the browser but I've been using their search on Firefox. Really like the AI summarizer and the results are also good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You mention brave but no mention of kagi? Kagi is way better than DDG too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did the Privacy Guides drama ever get resolved re: PrivacyTools. I recall one was split off from the other over draaaamaaa.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I mean I guess. They aren't actively fighting or anything like that to my knowledge. I personally think the Privacy Guides is the better resource, because PrivacyTools has vpn recommendations like Nord and Surfshark with affiliate links that are not actively disclosed from my quick check.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

No joke, Bing Chat is considerably better at finding answers than any search engine I've used in recent years. I don't even bother googling things anymore. Just ask the AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No kidding. Just earlier today, I was looking for a kind of niche tool used to wrap pallets in plastic, and I found nothing on google about it. It kept showing me everything BUT what I was looking for.

On bing, I found just about all of the information I needed about it. Turns out it's niche partially because it's made in my province, which I also found out from bing. Almost no one knows what I'm referring to when I mention it. It combines the technology of machine wrapping and hand wrapping, and it makes warehousing much easier sometimes. I wanted to recommend it to someone. Thanks Bing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Is it much different from a pallet wrapper? A big platform you can set a pallet on loaded with stuff and it spins? And you hold what's like a yard wide rolling pin with plastic wrap on it to wrap the pallet as it spins?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago