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@… why has it taken me years to discover that you're here? Oops.
So. What's new?
#search #Startpage

This is bizarre - I made a typo and accidentally ran a #Google search for a comma. Not the word, the punctuation mark.
And yet, somehow, Google thinks that is:
1. A valid enough search to be showing a bazillion results
2. A search that needs short-form vertical videos at the top from a bunch of white women (who are they? Why them? What in the world is relevant to a singular punctuation mark that makes them pull up these videos?)
3. A search with enough inferred intent to show me a whole Q&A interface?
I know we complain about the state of #search online a lot these days and I've been part of the #SEO industry for years but something like this is so blatantly ridiculous it's hard not to stop and wonder.... what the actual fuck?

Explore some wild web pages.
BTW marginalia is also a search engine.
#links

Sometimes i have the feeling that AI results in Google Search are just a placeholder. Results are often awful and incomparable with using the paid version of Gemini 3 with the same query. Google is betting that models will improve and become cheaper so that they can offer a better experience in the future.
#AI #Search

Es gibt kein Entrinnen vor Google und Microsoft
Die Alter­na­ti­ven zu den gros­sen Such­ma­schi­nen sind gar keine: Denn Duck Duck Go, Qwant, Swiss­cows und Qwant verwenden die Indizes der gros­sen Konzerne. Lohnt es sich da über­haupt, sie zu be­nutzen, fragt @… #Search