🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet

In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -

#tech #contentcreator #contentquality

Video credit Patrick Boyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MruTOrLyM

🪩 #monday #reflection - 📲 #AI #chatbots are replacing #searchengines —and in the process, they’re gutting the economics of #journalism, #reviews, and the open #internet

In this video, Boyle explores how tools like #ChatGPT, #Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews are intercepting audiences, scraping content without compensation, and threatening the viability of independent news and trusted information -

#tech #contentcreator #contentquality

Video credit Patrick Boyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MruTOrLyM

So I never really looked into it, but I guess Neocities is like... an indy place where people can post their own stuffs?

Anyway, it looks like Bing is blocking them from showing up in the search results. From what they're implying (neo), it looks like Bing is giving them one of those infuriating non-answers corpos love to hand out these days.

You know...

1) We confirm that your account is banned / you are banned

2) We will not reverse the ban.

3) We will not tell you why we did it.

4) But trust us, it was because 'policy violation.'

I've run into this sometimes too, like... I use a VPN and I've got myself banned from some shopping sites for ...you know, like... buying things and paying for them consistently.

Anyway I think I had a point, I dunno... I need more coffee. OH. Right. If you're using a Bing based search then you might be getting filtered results or something. So maybe look at other searches?

I use Kagi, but I bet a lot of people have recommends. Post in the comments (and if you know, tell us who they use to search!)

Thanks to @literalgrill for the head's up on Bing's trash behavior.

#kagi #neocities #bing #SearchEngines #CorposBehavingBadly #microsoft #duckduckgo

So I never really looked into it, but I guess Neocities is like... an indy place where people can post their own stuffs?

Anyway, it looks like Bing is blocking them from showing up in the search results. From what they're implying (neo), it looks like Bing is giving them one of those infuriating non-answers corpos love to hand out these days.

You know...

1) We confirm that your account is banned / you are banned

2) We will not reverse the ban.

3) We will not tell you why we did it.

4) But trust us, it was because 'policy violation.'

I've run into this sometimes too, like... I use a VPN and I've got myself banned from some shopping sites for ...you know, like... buying things and paying for them consistently.

Anyway I think I had a point, I dunno... I need more coffee. OH. Right. If you're using a Bing based search then you might be getting filtered results or something. So maybe look at other searches?

I use Kagi, but I bet a lot of people have recommends. Post in the comments (and if you know, tell us who they use to search!)

Thanks to @literalgrill for the head's up on Bing's trash behavior.

#kagi #neocities #bing #SearchEngines #CorposBehavingBadly #microsoft #duckduckgo

Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?

• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
• https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273

Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?

Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social me... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/could-chatgpt-convince-you-to-buy-something.html

#Uncategorized #searchengines #Google #LLM #AI

Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?

Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social me... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/could-chatgpt-convince-you-to-buy-something.html

#Uncategorized #searchengines #Google #LLM #AI

Wild idea:

A SearXNG instance/fork run by a co-op, supported by donations (Wikipedia style), using independent indexes like Brave and Mojeek. Free from AI slop. Hosted in the EU. Always free to use.

The search.coop domain is free 👀

Someone should do this.

#Ideas #Cooperatives #SearXNG #OpenSource #Tech #Solarpunk #SearchEngines #Privacy #SocialCoop

Wild idea:

A SearXNG instance/fork run by a co-op, supported by donations (Wikipedia style), using independent indexes like Brave and Mojeek. Free from AI slop. Hosted in the EU. Always free to use.

The search.coop domain is free 👀

Someone should do this.

#Ideas #Cooperatives #SearXNG #OpenSource #Tech #Solarpunk #SearchEngines #Privacy #SocialCoop

@greger Very hard to find. Both @kagihq and @Mojeek have this feature called Lenses/Focus which I find very useful; allowing you to search a specific set of domains, like online encyclopedias, small independent sites like blogs, university websites only, etc.

If I know I'm looking for hard facts from reliable sources and not generic and bloated content writing for ad revenue, I use those options.

#search #searchEngines #internet #webtools #mojeek #kagi

A #study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that hundreds of English-language websites, including #mainstream #news outlets, are #linking to articles from the pro-Kremlin #Pravda network. This network, identified by the French government, is flooding the internet with #disinformation, potentially influencing #searchengines and #LLMs. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/english-language-websites-link-pro-kremlin-russian-propaganda-pravda-network?eicker.news #tech #media #news

A #study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that hundreds of English-language websites, including #mainstream #news outlets, are #linking to articles from the pro-Kremlin #Pravda network. This network, identified by the French government, is flooding the internet with #disinformation, potentially influencing #searchengines and #LLMs. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/english-language-websites-link-pro-kremlin-russian-propaganda-pravda-network?eicker.news #tech #media #news

@Mojeek Mojeek is the best search engine out there in my opinion.

#mojeek #mojeeksearch #TryMojeekSearch #search #searchengine #searchengines #opinion

The search engine @ecosia have a survey running. They want to know how you use their search engine and how you use AI.

You can tell them what you think about both of those things here: https://feedback.surveylab.com/38a/5f0d0476/

🙃

#ecosia #searchengines #technology #ai #llms #poll #survey

🗨️ Unfortunately I could not find just ONE real (meaning no auto-feed) African news agency entry via US - provided #searchengines in #germany - not one! This is the situation on global #emergencyresponse, folks! We live in a digital world of ISR-US-Arab #news online, so it's impossible to even get valid reports from #darfur #sudan at this point.

I picked the Al Jazeera report and will try to get more geo data via relief web #africa in the upcoming hours 👇🏽

#landslide

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/2/landslide-kills-more-than-1000-in-sudans-darfur-region-armed-group-says

The search engine @ecosia have a survey running. They want to know how you use their search engine and how you use AI.

You can tell them what you think about both of those things here: https://feedback.surveylab.com/38a/5f0d0476/

🙃

#ecosia #searchengines #technology #ai #llms #poll #survey

Imo, this is one of the best features of @Mojeek - Focus search.

https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek/115145042132331384

#searchEngines #mojeek #search#internet #technology#deGoogle