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Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don't respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I'm not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

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[โ€“] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? I just tried two test queries on DDG, and neither one had LLM-generated nonsense, and the one that was in double-quotes returned only five results, all of which had the double-quoted phrase and one of which was the thing I was challenging it to find.

Can you give an example of a query where DDG returns LLM results or doesn't respect your double-quotes?

[โ€“] bananahammock@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think they are referring to the search engines returning LLM content farm websites.

[โ€“] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe Iโ€™m a little out of the loop, what are llm content farm websites?

[โ€“] GammaGames 5 points 1 month ago

Sites that mass-generate garbage using llms

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Think recipe websites that take forever to get to the recipe but it's for other topics. Like a simple question, "what is the release date for X new game?" And then there will be like 5+ paragraphs of jibber jabber about the game and then finally the last article will say when it releases.

This sort of site has been around for a while but supposedly they're more common nowadays. Personally I think people just have a better eye for things not written entirely by humans. Either way it's annoying to deal with them.

[โ€“] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Ugh I feel like I have been seeing more of that. Asked how many ml in a wine pour and got like 5 sites that wouldnโ€™t just come out and say it. All kinds of gobbledegook dancing around the topic but no one would just freaking say it. 140ml in case you needed it

[โ€“] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 1 month ago

They're clearly not.