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DOJ proposes breakup and other big changes to end Google search monopoly (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Would it make the internet better? Probably.

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[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you're following citations, may as well just search for the citations themselves... aka just a regular search engine.

[–] Zeshade@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yes but the power of it is that you can in effect refine your search using natural language, like talking to a person, as it remembers the last 2-3 exchanges.

And it presents the information the way you asked to see it.

For example (my side of the "conversation"):

What is hamas?
Compared to Hezbollah?
what are the differences between Shia and Sunni?

The citations confirm the information, they are not the end goal. The added value is the fact that the information is pre-digested and presented in a way that matches my learning process. It's a lot easier for me to assimilate information by getting answers to questions that I've asked.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, if search hadn't become dog shit I'd be happy with it

Instead, everything is a video for some reason, and the results are purposely worse than a year ago...I don't want to watch a video, I can read 20x faster than I can listen, I don't want to read an ad in article form - I'm generally looking for one little nugget of information

I took this into my own hands - I'll use free services if they work, but increasingly they're just demos for a product that may or may not be better. So I spun up a searx container, I point a local LLM at it, and I let it filter read through results. My next stage is to crawl documentation, use LLMs to feed it into a vector db, and use AI to retrieve exactly what I want without sifting through garbage myself