I am dreaming of a somehow human-curated privacy-respectful search engine that returns results that are free from all this intolerable AI-slop soup pollution, simply while using good old keywords.
Wouldn't that be great?
Wouldn't that be the future? 😌🌱
@Em0nM4stodon
You might be interested in https://wiby.me/ ? It's a human-curated search engine for non-commercial websites (so it's not the best as a general-purpose search engine, but incredible for finding Cool Old Internet Stuff)
@Em0nM4stodon I still miss Lycos.
@Em0nM4stodon Hmm, seems like a cool idea. Maybe it could work using a community browser extension that scrapes webpages as you view them -- think like the RECAP extension for accessing PACER documents, but for indexing rather than archiving.
As they browse, if the webpage is new to the index, there's a small, unobtrusive panel somewhere that says something like:
"Hey, is this page AI-slop? If not, go ahead and give it a rating, and we'll add it to our search index"
@riverpunk I think that'd be a a very nice way to do it.
@Em0nM4stodon At this point I'd settle for one that just gave results that match what I _actually_ searched for... not whatever it felt I might have meant.
I would pay money to use a search engine that guarantees or even tries to avoid slop content. The best I have seen is a setting to not include LLM generated images. The only search engines I have seen that do not push their own LLM's are Marginalia, Mojeek, and SearXNG. It is like a virus that once a search engine gets to a certain size an LLM appears on their page. I wish DuckDuckGo would not have one (I know you can hide it). I considered paying for Kagi as it is really nice, however they have an LLM now, too.
@Em0nM4stodon I'd like to see this, and maybe something more generalized for social media. I like the idea of using a web-of-trust approach for filtering content.
@Em0nM4stodon @catsalad I expect that to happen. Or something like it. Just like we can buy hand-knit merino sweaters at a price or decide for a cheap mass-produced polyester sweater at a significantly lower price, I expect to be able to buy manually curated results. At the current state of the world maybe through a services where my results will be hand-curated by 3rd world wage slaves with a nice fat margin for the provider, but I’m pretty sure we’ll see something like that.
@Em0nM4stodon
Not human-curated, and not with me affiliated, but there's a NoAi version of DuckDuckGo which doesn't generate soup when you search and tries to exclude slop images
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
@Em0nM4stodon marginalia search is almost what you are looking for.
It’s privacy respecting, but it focuses on small hobby type sites
Also, it’s ran by a single guy who runs it on a single if fairly hefty server
Please --yes!!!!
@Em0nM4stodon don’t know about humans curating the search results, but I find Kagi ticking those boxes
@Em0nM4stodon Do you know of SearXNG? https://searxng.org/
Seems like our most promising way forward these days.
@Em0nM4stodon That sounds like the OG Yahoo, honestly.
@Bfordham @Em0nM4stodon I came here to say this!
