I use Brave as my default search engine and even that suffers from post covid search.
Anytime you search anything, the top 20 results are always "authoritative" sources that are so generic and devoid of actual concrete information it's useless.
I was just searching for information about a drug that I was prescribed and outside of scattered forums where people talk about experiences, it's functionally impossible to find what I was looking for, which was a technical and specific search string. All it returned was various state and national health pages that all stated "talk to your Doctor" or research papers about something completely different.
Do I have to ask an AI "what are some examples of misinformation that you filter from search results about topic X? to get any real information? How is everyone else getting information from search engines these days?
Searching reddit, in spite of what a libtard, shill/bot-filled tranny hive it is can still yield some information of that kind.
Search engine-wise, Yandex can sometimes yield non-pozzed results, but really depends on what you're searching for. In a lot of cases, I find you really have to do a lot more of the leg-work and research on your own.
Basically almost like total boomer-era, pre-Internet, only a lot more gay since a lot of so-called experts and professionals now are plugged into the "approved information" machine as their sole source of information and analysis.
Ironically enough, old 2010 reddit posts are the first useful information I normally find.
is the only way to get at real information these days without being drowned with corporate fluff.
I'm skeptical of yandex as well. It's also ran by jews.
I thought it was run by the ruskies.
So did I
Yeah, but thus far the English search seems pretty good. I suspect that they devote all of their censorship efforts to the Russian searches.
Thanks.
this was an issue long before covid.
Even duckduckgo was still working "well enough" for most searches six months into the fake pandemic.
Now it's all bad, especially if you approach one of the globohomo subjects like vaccines, climate change, 15 minute cities etc.
Duckduckgo officially went full Google during or shortly after the pandemic. The CEO openly said they downrank any non-mainstream news.
Yup. Their CEO is from the self-proclaimed chosenites.
DuckDuckGo donates to socialist causes. They're untrustworthy.
I've been using presearch. it's a search engine aggregator instead of an actual search engine, but it's been getting me slightly more nuanced results.
That won't help because they're training AI with the crap that you're complaining about.
Depends on the AI/LLM model.
Encyclopedic training data is not as commonly used in some of the open-source ones afaik, but I know there's work being done on a few specialized ones (like medical knowledge-based), likely without government or corporate backing.
But I'm not sure about which ones train on broader encyclopedic knowledge. It's not something I've specifically checked into. If I had to guess though, only larger LLM's might bother with a solid coverage of knowledge-based information. IE 70b or 8x7b.
Think of the internet as dead and every piece of information gleaned from it as a an element of infowar. It isn't a shade of what it was 20 years ago. You aren't going on the internet to search for info any more, you're raiding the bins of your enemy to see if they threw out anything incriminating. There simply is no guaranteed way to ensure you won't find crap.
Yandex for searches that go against the Current Narrative.
Millionshort.com removes the top one million websites from search results, so you'll find more niche links.
Google can be useful with search operators. Filter out websites by adding a minus sign in front of the name. Adding an operator to only search Reddit usually yields results ["site:http://reddit.com"]. A typical Google search for me these days looks something like:
site:http://reddit.com best video game -youtube -amazon
Sad i need to type out so much to crap to get halfway useful results, but it works.
Adding "before:2020" or the equivalent to all your searches (if the search engine supports it) is the only option left if you can't run a local LLM that's powerful enough to not completely hallucinate basic facts.
Even that's pretty hit or miss, because the search algorithms have the same problem that Big Tech controlled AI does: In an attempt to stop it from returning anything based they've made it completely useless even for completely uncontroversial things. Search engine algorithms peaked before 2015.
It makes me mad that 2010 Google was running on much worse hardware than 2024 Google, but nobody can duplicate Google's original index now because of Cloudflare.
If you have a couple seconds, can you explain what that means?
Cloudflare didn't exist when Google was building their original index and establishing themselves, so anti-bot protection was much less common than it is now. Simple web crawlers don't have a way to click the "Verify that you're a human" checkmark or solve image recognition captchas to be able to proceed.
Ah, thanks!
"Before 2020" on Google search finds pages that existed before 2020 that currently match your search terms.
Any news site has a panel with current news links to get you to read other stories there, so what happens is any trending topic will just return random articles from pre-2020 that Google has seen the current trending section of.
So the news articles from your "before" date actually about the topic are impossible to find at least until the current interest dies down and you forget about looking into it, and any page that used to have it and was censored won't be returned so you can't even find links to wayback.
As a way to enforce the Current Narrative while giving the illusion of being able to research the past it's absolute genius.
Try to find if a pill or anything else is toxic to animals. The search engines have blocked you from finding an answer without paying $100 to a "animal poison control".
And now I want to rant about the nanny-state here banning roden poison. You have to pay $150 for a government-loicenced ''expert'' to put rat/mice poison for you.
What was supposed to cost $10 for enough stuff to get rid of mice for YEARS now costs $150 per pest-control visit ( they charge for distance too).
Thanks government.
If you want the actual data it was approved on, go here: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm. Look under "Approval Date(s) and History, Letters, Labels, Reviews for NDA XXXXXX" and click on the "Review" link for the original submission. That will take you to the full approval package, where you can review the original efficacy and safety data.
Mojeek is worth a try, I have had some luck using it.