@mia@hcommons.social2026-01-10 09:48:47
@mia@hcommons.social2026-01-10 09:48:47
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-01-10 00:15:45
Will 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/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-01-09 08:51:00
Brand Visibility in AI cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne https://marketoonist.com/2026/01/brand-visibility-in-ai.html
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-01-10 14:49:46
Not hiking today but trying out qwant.com as complete European search engine. I'm curious...
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-08 17:30:41
Tailwind 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
@hanno@mastodon.social2026-01-04 12:50:18
Anyone 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.social2026-01-08 15:42:50
Microsoft 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…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-06 19:41:21
@… 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.de2025-12-05 07:00:05
cora: 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.social2026-02-05 18:21:02
Google 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…
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza2026-02-07 15:47:16
Content warning: Chatbots
My 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.
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-05 17:30:12
Yes. 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”
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-12-05 20:58:46
"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.social2026-02-04 18:08:58
The 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/ <…
@lil5@social.linux.pizza2026-01-20 17:08:40
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 22:27:56
Google 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.
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-05 17:16:41
I 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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-28 17:40:55
Following 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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-05 22:56:05
A 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…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-11-28 09:21:40
No idea what the Kagi crawler does but it has been caught by iocaine ;)
EDIT: It wasn't the Kagi crawler but the Google crawler ;)
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-02-02 23:00:05
cora: 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
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-27 18:50:03
They 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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-28 17:46:01
Following 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-27 15:30:47
Yahoo 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
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net2025-11-22 15:28:17
@… 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.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us2025-12-27 20:39:44
@hanno@mastodon.social2026-01-24 12:52:35
Why 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.social2026-01-27 15:21:39
Yahoo 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
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-15 01:29:23
FreeBSD search: <https://www.freebsd.org/search/>
FreeBSD mailing list search engine: <https://lists.freebsd.org/search/…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org2025-12-16 19:55:56
Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @…
Thank you crypto folks!
https://www.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza2025-12-03 19:13:50
Content warning: AI bubble
There 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-02-02 06:00:04
cora: 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
@kornel@mastodon.social2025-11-17 19:07:53
I'm trying to convert my mom to @… browser, but it keeps failing. Latest episode:
"Vivaldi is useless. I can't book train tickets on Wikipedia!!"
*Somehow* my mom switched the default search engine to Wikipedia.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-04 18:16:14
Phia, 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-04 02:05:51
Microsoft 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.social2026-01-27 10:51:19
The 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-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-30 20:00:04
cora: 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.social2026-02-03 20:30:54
Microsoft 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…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-13 16:08:57
While 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-28 16:00:04
cora: 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.social2025-11-21 16:36:04
Google 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-27 09:00:05
cora: 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.social2026-01-29 04:56:02
Job 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)
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-12-12 17:48:25
ChatGPT 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-10 21:30:59
Google 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-22 15:00:05
cora: 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.social2025-12-10 22:21:12
Google 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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-19 13:17:46
Adobe plans to acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use rises, for $1.9B in cash, paying $12 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/d…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-19 12:27:55
Sources: Adobe nears a $1.9B deal to acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use increases, paying $12 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…