I don’t use Google directly, but as part of the open source meta search engine SearXNG, where we can specify what search engines it will use. And the top result is from Google and I can confirm that Plasma 6 for Arch is now officially been canceled. And it’s linked to Reddit. :smiley:
Search terms: kde plasma 6 release arch linux
It wasn't even near the top of the post. (4 people fell for it in the replies)
When your SEO gets powerful enough, Google will believe your lies.
This is really funny. People should just start commenting false information everywhere
Great idea, what could go wrong?
Nothing that I can think of
Data poisoning is a seriously underutilized weapon against the monetization of our information.
Google search is dying and it's good
Bring back AltaVista!
Ah, a man of culture as well. I remember using it before Google was a thing. Before it was purchased by Yahoo: https://web.archive.org/web/20010616025422/http://www.altavista.com/ and here the first snapshot available on archive org: https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174810/http://www.altavista.com/
Oh man,that and hotbot.
I hopped on board the duck duckgo train a short while ago ( 6 months ). I've had no real issues with it except for one thing. If some event occurs and gains popularity very quickly ( within the span of a couple days ), it doesn't really show up at the forefront of the search results.
A decent example is when I was looking up the Willy's Chocolate Factory event fiasco. I was specifically looking for images from the event to forward to my brother bc that entire event was hilarious. I had trouble with ducksuckgo. I fell back to Google image search for more ease of use.
Well privacy and quality always come with some drawbacks
No doubt. It's not much of a complaint, but rather an advisory. I still main duckduckgo of for no other reason than to avoid the mounting ads on Google
I know there are some search engines that use Google's search but add some privacy stuff to stop tracking. Maybe take a look at one of them?
Interesting...for reference, let me share a screenshot of the first two results I get from Kagi.
How's Kagi?
Overall, pretty decent.
I seen a post on mastodon yesterday that said if you're using google to search for anything, the trick to getting useful results is to include before:2023 and ignore anything newer because it's probably just AI generated/prioritized BS.
I don't think they were entirely wrong in thinking that, tbh.
before:2023 would just show content from 2023 and earlier I guess, right? That means new content is not available to you anymore. Plus, I don't think this has anything to do with AI, because Google can process the data from any date with AI. AI is the tool to access the data, which can include older and new data.
The issue isn't Google using AI to process the data. The issue is that the internet is filling up with AI-generated crap.
That issue is older, but even worse since chatgpt
It's not gonna stop Google's internal processes from deciding to pick complete BS results, and you'd definitely be ignoring new genuine content too, but as long as your not looking for results on something time sensitive it would tune out a lot of the AI generated noise out there from the crazy rise in ChatGPT content-farmed articles.
You won't get plasma 6 release at all if you searched before 2023
I’ve been refreshing the arch repo site constantly to check if it’s available on the standard repo (not the testing).
Let 'em cook
For me the top result on actual Google shows the instructions to install it, but that Reddit post is number two. I forgot how shitty the Google results page was these days.
Use something other than Google
I'm very excited for when it's finally ready. It feels like a long wait, but I'm sure it'll be worth it and there's a lot to check to make sure it's stable enough for prime time.
"we did it, reddit"
This is gold
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