cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1271267
What do you guys think about this? (Wasn’t sure which community to post this in)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1271267
What do you guys think about this? (Wasn’t sure which community to post this in)
I like startpage. It’s not perfect but works. If I still cant find anything I search google. 95% of the time it just works.
@Stijn @krevassi, Startpage is probably one of the best search engines, I used it among others as second of my list, but for first searches I use 2 AI search engines which show me direct answers to complex questions.
https://andisearch.com
https://www.perplexity.ai
and sometimes also
https://you.com
All of these protect privacy and made by small independent startups
AI search seems like something to dip my toes into. Thanks for the tips.
@krevassi @IcyPractice @CookieJarObserver @DeriHunter @Stijn, soon all search engines will include AI, DDG the next. Normal search engines like Startpage have many result pages, but most of them have nothing to do with your search, if it is more than one word, AI however allows direct complex questions and gives you a direct answer, also mentioning the sources for further investigation. It is only convenient to avoid the search engines of the big companies with results that are often interested
@krevassi @IcyPractice @CookieJarObserver @DeriHunter @Stijn, anyway, don’t confuse AI search with AI chats, like ChatGPT, because these have a maybe better Language model, but it’s knowledge base is limited (the one of ChatGPT is from 2021), they don’t search in the web. Because of this the answers are not reliable or at least outdated.
@CatWeazle Tried out andi and it is excellent, looked for jobs in my area and it gave me a list of links, all relevant. Also you have an option to only read the linked articles, no need to visit the page so you can bypass gdpr-bs and advertisement. That’s going to be bookmarked permanently.
@krevassi @IcyPractice @CookieJarObserver @DeriHunter @Stijn, Andi is also my favorite, it is perfect for most cases and one of the most privacy-protecting browsers. It also allows you to view YouTube videos directly in the results. It supports !Bang commands such as DDG and also to generate poems and even Haikus by putting /Generate or /Write before the question, other commands in the help.
You can add it directly to your search engines, so you can use it direct in your adress/searchbar