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GNOME OS will soon be a "real" distro
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So, I don't think I'm teaching you anything when I say that Google Search has been getting worse and worse. What Google Search is losing, is accuracy. The pre-made snippets that they display? often don't refer to what you're looking for, they're generally related to, but not exact when searching for specific things. The AI summaries that they want to add? Well, we all know AI isn't exactly reliable, and that you have to fact check literally everything it says, so it doesn't quite save time compared to a regular search.
There's also the fact that consumer reviews are now pretty much garbage, generated by review farms. The fact that SEO "hacking" has made trying to appear in top results a game and an industry, and much like regular hacking, Google can only play catch up, and never really beat the manipulations website engage in.
it's all a mess, and this results in having to type "reddit" at the end of your query to get some actual answers written by some actual people, however dabatable these answers can be, depending on the topic.
So, if you want to fight the AI onslaught that is ruining most searches, there's something you CAN do.
So, if you still want to use Google Search because everything else is, in your use case, not as good, you can at lest create a shortcut that removes a bunch of the crap Google adds.
To do so, you need to add a custom search engine, most browsers let you do that. In Firefox and its forks, you can go to sttings, then search, then at the bottom, you can add a search shortcut that uses this URL: http://google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s
You can also add that to Chromium based browsers by entering another string in the search sttings as well, as a new search engine.
You can make that new engine the default in your settings, and when using that, it will remove all AI results, and default to the "web" tab instead of the "all" tab of Google search, so you only get webpages and not all the extra crap.
The engine I currently use is Duck Duck Go, it's the search engine that at least, in French and english, tends to give me the best results.
Another one I used extensively in the past is Ecosia, it also uses Bing quite a lot for their results, but the engine is nice, gives accurate results, and if you have ads turned on, they'll plant trees with the money they get, although how efficient this is depends on who they contract that out to, so not sure if it's a big benefit or not.
If you like the concept of the Fediverse, mastodon, Peertube and the like, you might also like SearXNG. It's a federated metasearch engine, meaning it's decentralized, and hosted by several instances, either private, for your own use and no one else's, or public, where you can access the engine, but you'll need to ensure they don't log stuff, so you kind of have to trust the person or org hosting it.
If you use the Brave browser, you might also know about their search engine, which is an interesting one, because it's a very rare occurrence of an engine with its own Index: they don't depend on Google or Bing for results, they use their own index entirely, including for images and videos.
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Plasma 6.4 has a beta
Microsoft closes down Bing Search API
Open Web Index offers an alternative for search engines
End of 10 campaign helps Windows users move to Linux
Ubuntu 25.10 has some nice things in store
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GNOME Foundation has a new Director
Mint 22.2 stops forking GNOME apps
OpenSUSE removes deepin packages
New Linux distro comes from a Microsoft Employee
Peertube mobile app is here
elementaryOS has some good stuff coming
Mozilla afraid of Google search monopoly ruling
US DOJ asks for Google ad business breakup
Open Letter against EU's attacks on encryption
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KDE sprint proposes big changes
KDE 3.5 lives on and gets an update
Wikipedia will adopt AI
OpenSUSE Leap 16 is a BIG change
Firefox 138 adds a lot of stuff
Firefox 139 adds a terms of service pop-up
Proton 10 has a beta
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