If anyone tells you google search is the best engine, this article has counter-arguments.
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I know there are search engines that are better than Google, but it’s becoming mathematically impossible to make a truly good search engine these days. Basically everyone is creating infinite AI generated content… and all that content is optimized for computers to read, not humans.
We need a fundamental shift in how we find information, and I’m not sure what that solution will be.
People have suggested web rings, but most people don’t care much.
Most users are kind of learned helplessness and don’t really try much different.
Can’t there be an alternative like a user-curated search engine? Users could label their favorite sites with the proper keywords and then the community could up/downvote the results for quality control.
Would be just as vulnerable to automated SEO unless there’s a significant barrier to being able to label and vote, such as invitation-only groups.
And don’t we have this already, almost? Filter Mastodon hashtags for links or add UI for hashtags to Lemmy. Or use full text search.
