What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding “reddit” or whatever internet community to the results?

  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    More and more I have been using the Bing “chat” search. It does a search, filters through the results and summarizes the answer with links to the sites it found them on.

    For certain types of search it is a huge time saver of scrolling through results to find answers on various pages.

    Over all bing search it self isn’t bad.

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      1 year ago

      Dunno why you’re getting down voted. It’s literally a search engine that can read all the bullshit faster than you, so that you don’t have to.

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        If it isn’t open / free / private there is a % of the community that will not even try it.

        Just like on Reddit lots of negative energy in some subs.

        Hardly saying bing is amazing only that lately I have been drawn to trying it more since the chat based search that allows follow ups in natural language.

        Google bards equivalent is only available in the US and just this last week the UK so I can’t try it out.

        However over all I agree that more and more google search results have more adds and the good results pushed further and further down.

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          I don’t like the idea of getting answers from a search engine. That gives too much power to the company that runs the search engine. Id prefer to get a variety of links from independent sources.

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            Have it compile a list of sources it’s already sourced from, and keep searching for any new sources it can add. Have it list its expectations for what an expert should know about a particular subject, then have it learn about each of those points, and finally present as if it is an expert there to assist you.

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        I downvoted because I have literally no idea what that guy is talking about.

        Bing has never been a good search engine. The results are always so terrible, plus you have to wade through all the Microsoft click-baity crap they put everywhere.

        I do like Bing for porn tho…

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          Notice that they said chat. It this new thing where a language model (GPT) formulates the search queries and summarizes them to provide an answer.

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          1 year ago

          Have you tried using the Chat feature (GPT-4) to do searching? I just tried it, and it surprisingly works really well for some inquiries.

          Like, use their chat AI, but as a natural language search engine. It’s integrated to Bing’s index so it can peruse it itself, so you don’t have to wade through all the Microsoft click-baits crap they put everywhere.

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            You can’t use it on mobile without downloading the app and granting it god knows what permissions. Hell nah…

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              I am using the app and I’ve given it zero permissions.

              Have can you be so confidently judgemental without even installing it.

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          the clickbait alone is enough to turn me away from Bing and Edge

          cool that people don’t mind it but it shouldn’t be controversial to dislike Bing for bad UX

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      I recently switched to Bing after years of disappointment from Google and months of disappointment from DDG. Bing is pretty disappointing too, but less so, so far. I tried to use the chat feature a couple of days ago, but it said I have to download the app. Nah… fuck these tech companies and their apps.

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        1 year ago

        The “preview” for the chat feature requires the app or edge on desktop currently but I do find myself turning to it every time I get frustrated with a google search these days.

        Less disappointing is probably the best discrimination as you said.

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          I use the ChatGPT feature from desktop Firefox with no problems. Maybe it specifically denies Chrome, in which case I bet you could change the user agent string and get it to work.

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              I just tried it again on desktop and it worked, but the reason was that I downloaded an extension a while ago and forgot about it. When I disabled the extension, it stopped working.

              There used to be a way to enable installing any extension on mobile FFx Dev, but I’m not sure if that still works. The desktop extension just changes the user agent string, so that might be another route to enabling it.

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                I downloaded Firefox Nightly on my phone about a week ago so that I can change my user agent string to get Google to stop F’ing up YouTube pages, but it doesn’t seem to work. I guess I’ll look into that extension. Do you know what it’s called?