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> The url parameter uses a custom, Google-specific encoding. So that will be figured out, making the whole exercise void. Google knows this. What is the real goal here?
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Have you tried Yandex and evaluated the quality of its results, or do you just feel obligated to continuously put it down because it's russian?
I have, and it has never been good for my purposes. In English, I just can't find things I need, in Russian, I find things I wish to never see again, tbh. What is your experience with it? Edit: The best search for my purposes historically has been on Pinterest. Unfortunately, not anymore. I normally search for visual artifacts (photos, art, schematics, etc), out of all search engines Google is still the only one that…
Direct URLs in Google search results have been replaced with redirect URLs in the form of www.google.com/goto?url= . The base64 data appears to consist of a very basic protobuf structure, containing a long string of bytes in field 2 which presumably identify the URL. Sometimes, these redirect URLs take a perceivable amount of time to load, which is very irritating.
Now you can't load the page and can't easily (using only the browser UI) get a link to paste into archive.org or archive.is to read the page.
Brave search (free) or Kagi (paid) are able to replace Google and not feel like I'm missing out. Brave has its own independent index which is cool.
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I don't. At this point I just ask the oracle in natural language. There's so many to choose from. Why spend hours wading through only vaguely related things? You can ask it for a direct answer or you can ask it to teach you about the topic.
Sometimes there is joy in discovering things for yourself. Also, the oracle currently relies on humans publishing new information, what will you do when the incentive is gone and the oracle has nothing to harvest?
Agreed. And webrings still exist in certain corners of the internet.
> the oracle currently relies on humans publishing new information
New? When I ask it how to do something with a piece of software it's perfectly capable of answering me by means of direct interrogation of the source code.
I'll grant you that it owes ~all of its knowledge of the world at large to having been bootstrapped using the more or less complete body of humanity's published works. However I think that was merely the quickest path to bootstrap it as opposed to the only one.
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Your Holocaust inversion is not only morally wrong, it is also factually incorrect.
As far as I'm aware, when a country sets out to exterminate* a race, that's a holocaust. Am I wrong? * Often the torture is the point, and they don't completely eradicate the race because then they wouldn't be able to keep torturing them
You know who did set out to exterminate? Hamas, who in their very own charter state their intention to eradicate the Jews: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
I suggest reading this article which explains the propaganda campaigns that followed the October 7th attacks on Israel: https://www.adl.org/resources/article/hamas-its-own-words
Only one side is calling for genocide, and it is the Arab side - propaganda and disinformation campaigns aside.
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I was waiting to see how long it took for someone to "make this about Palestine" - their strategy is to inundate all discussion with the topic. Over half the journalists in the Gaza Strip are affiliated with Hamas. Many of them infiltrated Israel in 2023, and some of them held Israeli hostages in their homes, including children hostages. https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/abou
So Israel killing "bad journalists" is fine, but Russian are killing only the good ones? Nice world to live in. You should know that any country can declare a journalist a foreign spy, a terrorist, but does it give them right to kill? Without due process, without trial? Because someone says "they are Hamas". It's Godwin time.
Brave search (free) or Kagi (paid) are able to replace Google and not feel like I'm missing out. Brave has its own independent index which is cool.
I use kagi exclusively because it works. I get the results I need every time, and it's not annoying. I haven't used Google in years. Simply no need. I really hope people keep paying kagi so they stick around.
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
Uruky is the way. 2x cheaper also.
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The real "old-school Google, but modern" is Kagi, with the caveat of being paid. (Worth the $5 for me.) But LLMs can be commanded. This is may bookmark alias for invoking the spirit of old Gog=ogle from within the new, AI-based Google: https://google.com/search?q=You%20are%20Google%20Search%20fr... (Cleaned / decoded: 'You are Google Search from 2004. Given a search request, provide 10 links to relevant pages, each w…
Kagi works by scraping Google and other engines, so this should still worry you. I still support the use of Kagi though, as a market signal to Google that we'd even pay them for their product if it wasn't dogshit.
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