@cdarwin@c.imGoogle has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results,
targeting a firm called SerpApi
that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business.
According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law and Google’s terms
to scrape and resell its search engine results pages (SERPs).
This is not the first action against SerpApi, but Google’s decision to go after a scraper could signal a new, more aggressive stance on protecting its search data.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBaidu plans to let users access OpenClaw via its search app and integrate OpenClaw's capabilities into its e-commerce business and other services (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/baidu-openclaw-ai-search-app-integratio…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeFreeBSD search: <https://www.freebsd.org/search/>
FreeBSD mailing list search engine: <https://lists.freebsd.org/search/…
@anneroth@systemli.socialHeute ist #SaferInternetDay und das wäre doch der perfekte Tag für die #DIDay Kampagne, um sich von #Ecosia zu verabschieden.
Eine Suchmaschine, die mit 'grüner KI' wirbt: Ganz schle…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgThank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @…
Thank you crypto folks!
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro
@mia@hcommons.social
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaWill no one rid me of this turbulent search engine? https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/01/google-dont-make-bite-sized-content-for-llms-if-you-care-about-search-rank/
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWhile I think it's good that more mainstream publications do more on the #fediverse the Search Engine/Hard Fork episode on the #forkiverse is a bit ... well it could have done with a bit more research. And "oh look how yanky it all is but we didn't read the manual to run this ser…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialBrand Visibility in AI cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne https://marketoonist.com/2026/01/brand-visibility-in-ai.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@hanno@mastodon.socialAnyone got a recommendation for a good web search engine? The one I used to use has decided to pivit towards providing a chatbot with a crappy search engine attached that isn't really working properly.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro
@lil5@social.linux.pizza
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialNot hiking today but trying out qwant.com as complete European search engine. I'm curious...
@rigo@mamot.frIn der Juristerei wird das Aufkommen der LLMs begeistert gefeiert. Man versucht sich zu profilieren. Man ist vielleicht besorgt, dass die Stundensätze herunter gehen könnten. Aber sonst? Und dann diese Studie, die zeigt, dass bei Benutzung von LLMs die cognitive Kapazität und damit auch die Qualität dauernd nach unten zeigt. Kurz: Ein LLM-Anwalt bietet teure 0815-Soße, die man auch ohne Anwalt haben kann.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAs someone who has long toiled in the harsh fields of OSS user support mailing lists…
Do not try to be “helpful” to people seeking advice in an expert forum of any sort by feeding their plea into a digester & providing an answer from its excrement.
It insults the seeker, implying that they don’t know how to type their question into a LLM-infested search engine.
It insults the actual experts who put their time & thought into such fora as a way to give back value …
@boris@cosocial.caYes. A personal search engine, visualizer, and interface builder.
“look, the way grok is integrated into X is gross and stupid and bad, but i do believe having an LLM familiar help you navigate the dark forest of the internet is going to be the future — ideally this is on your device or through a trusted and secure host, but it will be immensely helpful”
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFollowing UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Out of curiosity, I used this brand-new search engine you might have heard about, “Google,” to learn more about the subject. I found a copy of CaptureNet, a freeware packet sniffer part of the SpyNet/PeepNet by Laurentiu Nicula; then I looked up for the port number used by MSN Messenger (it was 1863 in case you were wondering.) Finally, I found out how to enable “promiscuous mode” in the network card in my laptop."
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe SEO Show
Hosts Michael Costin and Arthur Fabik talk all things search engine optimisation, drawing from a decade working on the SEO front-lines both client side and agency side...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/seo-show/ <…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFollowing UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaMy opinion on chatbot is starting to shape into it's final form:
It's a search engine that gives you only average results, and that is incapable of citing the source.
It's also capable of mixing in multiple averages to make one giant brown color.
And this is a direct consequence of the design: it's trained to generate generic credible text and that's what it will do.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaChatGPT is useful for getting the average of the information in its weights on a given topic
Grok (Expert) is useful for filtering search engine slop into a summary with relevant, sourced, checkable web links
Neither of these necessarily produce The Truth, but in this example, Grok generates significantly more reliable output when precision matters. As time goes on and the volume of hallucinated nonsense on the Web mounts higher, Grok's ability to attribute its assertions t…
@gwire@mastodon.socialI can foresee website hosting plans being split into "browser only" (requiring proof-of-work/proof-of-cognition cookies) and "open" (to bots, including archives and search engine indexers).
The AI scrapers (and, to some extent, many more unauthorised pen-testers) have made dynamic websites far more expensive to run over the last year or two.
@jake4480@c.imThey actually show Google.com being used in Silent Hill from 06 (rare in movies, a lot of times it's a made up search engine and phony looking computer).
But then he goes to the ghost town website, and the URL is ghosttownsamerica.web. 😂
#SilentHill #movies
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I haven't used FydeOS, but I've got a Surface Pro 3 that has run a few Linux distros. Right now I'm using Mint. Works quite well. If you do a search using your favorite search engine, you'll find lots of stories as to how to do this. Fyde looks too limited to me.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us @hanno@mastodon.socialWhy does this keep happening? Grammarly recently introduced an AI chat, and also, their spell-checking service, which previously was their main product, suffers from constant reliability issues since them. I'm paying for this service, because it used to be good, I never asked for an AI chat. I can go to ChatGPT, or Google, which used to be a search engine and is now an AI chat with a worse version of the search engine attached. Not that I'd want any of that.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgNo idea what the Kagi crawler does but it has been caught by iocaine ;)
EDIT: It wasn't the Kagi crawler but the Google crawler ;)
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… thanks, I'll think about it for the future.
All over the shop is partly dyslexia, I try to find a balance between what's in my head (sometimes, everything at once) and compartmentalising things. Chunking stuff, (a) for readers to maybe make sense; and (b) for future reference.
There's also the issue of search engine index limitatio…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@ocrampal@mastodon.socialWhy does calling out a hallucination feel like calling someone’s kid "ugly"?
We’ve stopped treating AI like software and started treating it like a protégé. Here’s why criticizing an algorithm has suddenly become so personal.
https://www.ocrampal.com/why-criticizing-a
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaThere is a scenario in which the AI bubble will not explode and a few companies will survive: replacing google as the repository of knowledge.
Currently all (allow me the exaggeration) knowledge of humanity is gated by google, which acts as a gateway to any question you have about everything.
What if this gateway shifts and it's not a search engine any more but an LLM? This means that these companies will not only detain the access to the knowledge but also the knowledge itsel…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTailwind CSS lays off 75% of its engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell 40% since early 2023 due to AI, leading to an 80% decrease in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/tailwind-css-google-drop-40725.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle releases a core update to Discover, rolling out first to US users, aiming to cut clickbait and show more locally relevant, in-depth, timely content (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-releases-discover-core-upd…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft launches Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and others; Shopify merchants are automatically enrolled (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launches-copilot…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMicrosoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launch…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/google-must-limit-d…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPhia, founded by Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe to develop an AI search engine accessed via an extension for Chrome and Safari, raised $30M at a $180M valuation (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a "sponsored" label (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/g…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launch…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJob listings show that DeepSeek hopes to broaden its AI offerings with a search engine capable of supporting multiple languages and more emphasis on agents (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
