“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews
The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.
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Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven't looked back.
DuckDuckGo 🦆
Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though
And the choice is what matters.
Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.
Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.
Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn't include Copilot or a lowercase i :p
Yeah, don't ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called "Razor."
Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I'm aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.
Now imagine naming a social media platform after a letter of the alphabet 🙃
Or your company after the whole alphabet.
Or don’t, because that guy is busy getting access to the Fed to burn everything down.
I don't remember, was it Microsoft or just the journalists saying
The windows app let's you run windows apps on windows
They should hire someone to name things there. The only worse name I can think of would be to drop the "App" and just call it "Windows".
It was called Remote Desktop before, but some security problems, and the fact you can connect to a program running on a server (rather than the whole OS interface) .. Made them rename it, most of the tech is still the same though and most guides still apply to it.
Come to think of it, I seem to remember that the connect to an app, rather than desktop functionality was available in Windows Server 2012, so renaming it now is a delayed response at best.
Yeah replacing the previous app (which was also a shitty name btw) was why I had to look up information about it.
I’ve started using SearXNG. Are these better?
They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.
Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it's essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.
Any recommendations on how to get started with that? I've been using it but without digging through a frankly intimidating list of configuration options, I'm not feeling like it's really adding much value yet
No, SearXNG is great
Thanks
Mojeek too.
I've been using search xng for a while now, it's honestly really good
Careful. I suggested kagi in another thread and was accused of being a shill.
Don't understand how people can pay $7 for a coffee but won't consider paying $5 or $10 a month for clean search results.
People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I'm really happy. It's fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.
If I hate a particular website, I'll just block it and never see it again. It's so simple. The new "AI generated" tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.
Honestly I just use ChatGPT for all my questions now
That's certainly a choice
Zero Google AI in chat gpt, mission accomplished I guess?
He wants to help development of "open" "ai"
Hopefully not for anything that requires an accurate result...
If you ask it to find a source website rather then an explicit answer i don't see why not.
The internet is full of lies to begin with, i wouldn't trust the snippets on the google search page either.
Carbon footprint - AI burns a lot more power than old fashioned search results.
I get wanting to cost them more, but I don't think they'll see this use case as a cost.
I use ChatGPT to help me figure out my prompts for DeepSeek.