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Is there any good, free search engine left? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by superkret@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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

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

Maybe I’m a little out of the loop, what are llm content farm websites?

[–] GammaGames 5 points 1 month ago

Sites that mass-generate garbage using llms

[–] 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.

[–] 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 wouldn’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

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 1 month ago

They're clearly not.