What websites search function do you hate most?
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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.
I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.
But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.
Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.
When I used Brave the image search was extremely bad. I bet it still is
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I agree with the summaries part. It does reduce the amount of traffic for websites.
I am not sure if it was intentional to make the search bad. Search was getting worse even before AI. And why would you make your customers consider another product?
I'm not enough of an expert to explain it better, but I remember reading about a guy who came on board with google, and took over search. He had an initiative to keep people on google longer. That's my memory of it at least.
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I switched to Kagi a year ago. It's free for first hundred searches so you can see what it's like. If you like it you can pay for it. I know paying for a search Engine is very niche, but I use my search Engine for both work and personal, it's a tool and frankly you've already hit the nail on the the head with everything else just being shit. Between rubbish results and poor privacy, I really am happy that I have Kagi as an option. The price per year ain't bad for how much I use it and I'm happy my money is going to devs rather that aren't selling my data
I also like Kagi and I think it's the best search engine nowadays. I'm just sad because it's based in the US.
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Anyone using Mojeek?
Their about page: https://www.mojeek.com/about/
I've tried but their search results in my language were bad.
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I've tried but their search results in my language were bad.
Sorry to hear that. Do you get better results with SearXNG?
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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.
I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.
But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.
Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.
I vehemently hate when any website hijacks my web browser's ctrl+f or forward slash keyboard shortcuts for searching the page.
It's completely insane to me that javascript can override web browsers' builtin keyboard shortcuts.
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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.
I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.
But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.
Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.
I remember reddits search function a complete failiure. Even if I entered the precise title of a post, it could not find it. But it found hundreds of completely unrelated posts.
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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.
I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.
But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.
Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.
some time ago i realized it's better to find youtube videos on video.google.com.
yandex is pretty good these days but is full of captcha, luckily eTools doesn't have much and pulls from multiple engines including it.
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some time ago i realized it's better to find youtube videos on video.google.com.
yandex is pretty good these days but is full of captcha, luckily eTools doesn't have much and pulls from multiple engines including it.
I'll try that. thanks
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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.
I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.
But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.
Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.
Hidden RSS links
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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.
I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.
But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.
Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.
Definitely also agree on YouTube. I was thinking though, I never ever use tumblr's search, because it doesn't work at all. I've tried to search for specific posts, and it just does not work. That's part of the fun of tumblr though.
