idk Rusp
politics
Monday, August 5, 2024
after china takes over Taiwan and tencent buys out google in the aftermath
it might be renamed
I am tempted to try one of those premium search engines, but I feel like half the reason I like Google is because it's all integrated on every computer I use, in my browser, on my phone, etc.
and idk if anything else can really do that
and for non tech literate people, it does not even need to catch up
it needs to be 10-20% better
to gain any traction
because why would you change ecosystems for equal or only minor improvements
we can't even get play station fans to buy a console that actually has games
good luck getting someone to use a different search engine
that's the issue I think, any field where you can only pick *one* thing of a set of options
you just pick the best
and then all the 2nd/3rd/4th best options get mad that nobody picks them
and then the switching cost is so high, that there's very little incentive to switch
I was curious
So yeah, its google, then bing, then statistical anomolies
uh, I wouldn't say pointless AI integrations
but the search itself for both are shit rn
Google moreso
The AI stuff annoys me because its in the way of what I want to actually use the service for
they can have whatever they want but if it is at the top of my search or whatever, I get annoyed
yeah, I reworded what I meant
the AI feels like a different feature to me
the search itself has become really bad for both
copilot/gpt/gemini/grok/whatever are good for task-based queries
less so for general search/questions
Machine learning is genuinely one of the most powerful tools humanity has created in a while, I just think a lot of the trend ways it is being used will become less relevant
it is huge in control theory for doing control that would otherwise be way too intensive to do in a reasonable amount of time
I want to be able to blacklist sites from my search results, and favour certain sites
I always want Wikipedia up top, I want IMDB or MAL or w/e other site to serve prioritized results, stuff like that
thanks spooky
very cool
It would be fun to blacklist the top result every search
just to see how many searches until your results become complete skitzo deranged
yeah fuck it, I'll give Kagi Search a try ig
I'll see if I hate it or not
how cooked is intel, he is posting from Proverbs
