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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[-] reka@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you're a programmer, might I suggest the brave new world of ChatGPT enhanced search via Phind.com

Even if you're not, it's fantastic. It basically takes your input and processes it like ChatGPT but then is trained to run web searches to grab further information and uses that to progress its own internal monologue. The result is a natural language response with search engine like results down the side which are cited within the main response.

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Is it better than Bing-GPT search?

It feels like for the most part, Bing just parses your query for keywords and performs a search with them. Then it parses the first page and spits out the result. On the surface it looks like a regular web search I would do myself.

[-] reka@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Phind has its own approach with various automated prompts and UI functions. It's free to use so you can compare the differences in function.

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