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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/
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🗨️ 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 👇🏽
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/
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Imo, this is one of the best features of @Mojeek - Focus search.
https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek/115145042132331384
#searchEngines #mojeek #search#internet #technology#deGoogle
🗨️ 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 👇🏽
Oh, before I forget, Happy International Take A Friend Or Family Members Phone And Install An Adblocker And Change Their Default Web Browser and Search Engine Away From Google Day 🎉
(you can also do this any day of the year)
"A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.
Here’s more of what we learned about Google AI summaries and how users interact with them.
Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).
A bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries.
Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits to pages with such a summary.
Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."
#AI#GenerativeAI#Google#AIOverview#OpenWeb#Search#SearchEngines
"A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.
Here’s more of what we learned about Google AI summaries and how users interact with them.
Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).
A bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries.
Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits to pages with such a summary.
Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."
#AI#GenerativeAI#Google#AIOverview#OpenWeb#Search#SearchEngines
As search engines in 2025 shift from providing links to (AI) answers — and all the angst that is causing web publishers — I thought I'd take a look at what search engines were like in 1998...one year before Google became popular. At that time search was seen as just one part of the portal experience. But little did AltaVista know, it wouldn't be the center of attention on @dannysullivan's Search Engine Watch for much longer. https://cybercultural.com/p/search-1998/#InternetHistory #searchengines
As search engines in 2025 shift from providing links to (AI) answers — and all the angst that is causing web publishers — I thought I'd take a look at what search engines were like in 1998...one year before Google became popular. At that time search was seen as just one part of the portal experience. But little did AltaVista know, it wouldn't be the center of attention on @dannysullivan's Search Engine Watch for much longer. https://cybercultural.com/p/search-1998/#InternetHistory #searchengines
Oh, before I forget, Happy International Take A Friend Or Family Members Phone And Install An Adblocker And Change Their Default Web Browser and Search Engine Away From Google Day 🎉
(you can also do this any day of the year)
The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!
It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.
#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid
This also happened to me changing duckduckgo search back to google.
It didn't happen with Firefox so there is a bug somewhere. It might be interesting for someone to track this down. I doubt it was intentional, but could lead to finding other unexpected behavior.
My understanding is Fennec is a pure rebuild of Firefox without the firefox branding. There are other browsers available that make various changes to Firefox behavior. Fennec is not one of those.
#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid
The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!
It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.
#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid
The browser I use on Android (Fennec F-Droid) just switched my default search engine back to Goggle, and what's worse, completely removed Mojeek and Brave as search options. This is an anti-feature!
It would be great if F-Droid builds of Android browsers stripped out the code that pulls dick moves like this.
#search#SearchEngines#Android#WebBrowser#FDroid#FennecFDroid
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