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Feels weird to say but I have found using Yandex of all places an excellent search engine for content that get taken down by DMCA requests. Eg if you want to watch a movie that's not on Netflix using a web stream the search results are far better. Feels like Google circa 2005.
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I believe Kagi uses the Yandex index as their base as well.
Based on what? Have you read that somewhere?
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I’m quite happy trading off the agency of wading through trash to an LLM. In fact, I would say that’s something they’re pretty good at.
> look at sources and decide ... which ones are legitimate > I would say that’s something they’re pretty good at. Lol. Lmao, even. Seriously, LLMs are famously terrible at this. It's the entire problem behind prompt injection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection They're really good at... ingesting the trash. Yeah, that's pretty much their whole purpose. But understanding it as trash? Not even close. LLMs d…
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> look at sources and decide ... which ones are legitimate > I would say that’s something they’re pretty good at. Lol. Lmao, even. Seriously, LLMs are famously terrible at this. It's the entire problem behind prompt injection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_injection They're really good at... ingesting the trash. Yeah, that's pretty much their whole purpose. But understanding it as trash? Not even close. LLMs d…
I like the way this paper puts it: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-097...
https://www.wordnik.com/words/bullshit
The one I care about (near the bottom of the page); really, the only meaningful use IMO, except it can also be a noun:
> verb speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
It's "without regard for facts or truth".
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I like the way this paper puts it: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-097...
Gotta admit, I agree with the title (still reading it). https://www.wordnik.com/words/bullshit The one I care about (near the bottom of the page); really, the only meaningful use IMO, except it can also be a noun: > verb speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths It's "without regard for facts or truth".
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The purpose of a system is what it does.
It's not "a system". Each company is run by different people, and is under different pressures, and makes different decisions. Monolithing that is silly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...>
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ddg actually has its own crawler and does a tiny amount of its own indexing. It used to do more but resorted to just mostly using Bing and Yandex indexes
We have actually started doing a lot more crawling and indexing in the last 24 months.