GNU socialhttps://social.arkwoodpond.info/api/statusnet/conversation/304166.atomConversation2024-03-29T07:57:30+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/notetag:nu.federati.net,2021-12-28:noticeId=3389093:objectType=noteNew note by lnxw48a1DDG used to be better than Google at most searches, but in recent years, their results (and Yahoo's also) are almost identical in content and ordering to Bing's results. And Bing is clearly inferior, except with content that is hosted on Microsoft's own sites.http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2021-12-28T22:30:01+00:002021-12-28T22:30:01+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://nu.federati.net/user/2lnxw48a1Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .lnxw48a1LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .{58024A03-1021-499E-B14D-DF4537889BF8}https://nu.federati.net/conversation/2539062http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/notetag:nu.federati.net,2021-12-28:noticeId=3389037:objectType=noteNew note by lnxw48a1AFAIK, #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/brave" rel="tag">Brave</a></span> search uses its own crawler and index, as does #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/gigablast" rel="tag">Gigablast.</a></span> And let us not forget #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/yacy" rel="tag">YaCy.</a></span> I intend to host a YaCy peer-to-peer search instance on its own VPS (well, shared with a #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/searx" rel="tag">Searx</a></span> instance, which will use it)http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2021-12-28T01:51:18+00:002021-12-28T01:51:18+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://nu.federati.net/user/2lnxw48a1Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .lnxw48a1LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .{58024A03-1021-499E-B14D-DF4537889BF8}https://nu.federati.net/conversation/2539062http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/notetag:nu.federati.net,2021-12-28:noticeId=3389030:objectType=noteNew note by lnxw48a1I do disagree with this, in that #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/bing" rel="tag">Bing</a></span>'s search results aren't just bad because they can only crawl 90% of the sites that #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/google" rel="tag">Google</a></span> can. Bing's results are bad because their ranking algorithms fail to put the information people are searching for at the top of the results. If one clicks through 9 or 10 pages of results, one might find something relevant, which was probably why #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/yahoo" rel="tag">Yahoo</a></span> and #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/ddg" rel="tag">DDG</a></span> used to deliver better results than Bing, while sourcing most or all of their results from Bing.http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2021-12-28T01:40:32+00:002021-12-28T01:40:32+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://nu.federati.net/user/2lnxw48a1Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .lnxw48a1LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .{58024A03-1021-499E-B14D-DF4537889BF8}https://nu.federati.net/conversation/2539062http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/notetag:nu.federati.net,2021-12-28:noticeId=3389029:objectType=noteNew note by lnxw48a1<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-14/google-news-media-bargaining-code-build-search-engine/13143582" title="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-14/google-news-media-bargaining-code-build-search-engine/13143582" rel="nofollow" class="attachment">https://nu.federati.net/url/284139</a> [www abc net au]<br /><br /> Could #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/australia" rel="tag">Australia</a></span> build a national search engine to compete with #<span class="tag"><a href="https://nu.federati.net/tag/google" rel="tag">Google</a></span>?http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2021-12-28T01:35:29+00:002021-12-28T01:35:29+00:00http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttps://nu.federati.net/user/2lnxw48a1Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .lnxw48a1LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}Main account. A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing .{58024A03-1021-499E-B14D-DF4537889BF8}https://nu.federati.net/conversation/2539062