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‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by moralestapia »

tambourine_man wrote: post #37

I’d pay a good deal of money to have early 2010 style Google back. Mainly: - No AMP - If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me. - One ad per query. These days the organic results are after the page fold. This is unacceptable for something that’s supposed to be a search engine. —- The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly t…

>If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me.

I'd pay significant money for this (20-30 USD/month), plus very few search operators that actually make sense (i.e. and, or, not).

But yeah, we got AI instead ... (pure crap IMO)

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by fouc »

void_mint wrote: post #57
gregman wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are describing DDG.

DDG, but actually returning search results.

I made DDG my default, and it's great for 95% of my usage. For specific things where I know there should be better results, then I add a !g or !gi to the search query, which redirects to google or google images.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by Semaphor »

tambourine_man wrote: post #37

I’d pay a good deal of money to have early 2010 style Google back. Mainly: - No AMP - If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me. - One ad per query. These days the organic results are after the page fold. This is unacceptable for something that’s supposed to be a search engine. —- The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly t…

Is the quote string to enforce it still usable anywhere? DDG was always even worse than google at this, and I miss being able to search for phrases.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by amatecha »

fouc wrote: post #92
void_mint wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DDG, but actually returning search results.

I made DDG my default, and it's great for 95% of my usage. For specific things where I know there should be better results, then I add a !g or !gi to the search query, which redirects to google or google images.

Yeah, I have done the same. DDG is pretty decent! ... and, I totally did not know about the !g/!gi, thanks for that!!

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by anyfactor »

void_mint wrote: post #57
gregman wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are describing DDG.

DDG, but actually returning search results.

This. Everyone talks up DDG but it is literally one of the crappiest search engine out there. You never get what you want immediately. I think Bing and Searx are better options compared to DDG.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by Semaphor »

gregman wrote: post #49
tambourine_man wrote: post #37

I’d pay a good deal of money to have early 2010 style Google back. Mainly: - No AMP - If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me. - One ad per query. These days the organic results are after the page fold. This is unacceptable for something that’s supposed to be a search engine. —- The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly t…

I think you are describing DDG.

I’ve been using DDG for a few years now. They are even worse than google at honoring phrase search. In addition, google sometimes even tells you that they ignored some terms. DDG is just silently searching for some crap you never wanted to search for "to help you". It’s by far my #1 annoyance of DDG.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by lobocinza »

IgorPartola wrote: post #70
JoshTriplett wrote: post #38

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I would happily pay for an Open Source adblocker-style extension that intentionally breaks "do you want to download and install our app instead of using a perfectly reasonable web browser that you're in control of" pop-ups. If I don't already have the app installed, there's a reason for that. (In general, an adblocker is one of the most valuable things I have installed. I wish EasyList had a subscription option; I'd…

I block ads at the DNS level. Aside from 2-3 legitimate websites that broke as a result of this (because they use some Salesforce thing as a part of their site or similar), almost every unsubscribe link I get is now broken. I really wish there was some plug-in that would unroll those links to their final form since that’s usually fine but passes through 2-3 bukkshit redirects before it gets there.

I just send this kind of stuff to spam because I never subscribe to any mail newsletter.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by Semaphor »

amatecha wrote: post #94
fouc wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made DDG my default, and it's great for 95% of my usage. For specific things where I know there should be better results, then I add a !g or !gi to the search query, which redirects to google or google images.

Yeah, I have done the same. DDG is pretty decent! ... and, I totally did not know about the !g/!gi, thanks for that!!

Check out bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

You usually don’t even need to remember them, for most somewhat popular sites you can just guess the bang, and it searches there.

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