The Degraded Search Engine
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@davidrevoy To be honest, I've become a subject to this
Sometimes when I search up a question in a search engine it gives me results for the totally wrong question and and when I try to search up problems I'm having with Blender I mostly get old posts which are irrelevant to the latest version of Blender soooo yeeeah sometimes I just have to use AI to get what I want because there aren't any good search engines out there that I know of. It sucks that I have to do that but it's kinda necessary. I still prioritise search engine use though because search engines aren't completely borked.There's a search engine designed to index the non-commercial web https://marginalia-search.com/ (mastodon:
@marginalia )that's worth trying.
Also I've gone back to remembering which forums focus on specific topics and will sometimes search them directly.
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
I stopped using Google years ago, and I did not replace it with Bing either. Nor did I trust DuckDuckGo since it is in America.
Qwant — France, Europe
https://www.qwant.comEcosia — Germany, Europe
https://www.ecosia.orgMojeek — England, Europe
https://www.mojeek.comSwisscows — Switzerland, Europe
https://swisscows.comNaver — South Korea, Asia
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@davidrevoy Cheap Fire-Resistant Panties!
@grum999 @davidrevoy I wonder if this will turn out to be the true power of the soul-panties in critical role campaign 4
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@davidrevoy I say we bring back Web Rings.
@jordan @davidrevoy some people are doing that! https://human-made.site/
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy
yeah, the ol, mad(ison) ave. methods, -
@hacknorris @wikipedia I agree
Btw, I wonder what parody name (and metaphor) in a fantasy setting I could give to Wikipedia... I'm open to ideas!@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia Scrollwheel; it’s a huge scroll that anyone can add to, and it gets un/rolled to the point you want with the help of a captive demon running on an attached treadmill (doomscrolling, anyone?).
Could be that this for every different page instead of the whole thing, so you can set up a joke where some demons are sleepy and slothful and some demons are incredibly overworked from dealing with edit wars.
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy Gooblin
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy ok im quite tempted to call my search engine "Gooblin" now
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@hacknorris @wikipedia I agree
Btw, I wonder what parody name (and metaphor) in a fantasy setting I could give to Wikipedia... I'm open to ideas!@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia
The cave where everyone's speach gets recorded in echo and can get heard again.
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy so good!
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@hacknorris @wikipedia I agree
Btw, I wonder what parody name (and metaphor) in a fantasy setting I could give to Wikipedia... I'm open to ideas! -
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy this is incorrect. search results got worse befor ai -
@hacknorris @wikipedia I agree
Btw, I wonder what parody name (and metaphor) in a fantasy setting I could give to Wikipedia... I'm open to ideas!@davidrevoy Maybe Wiccapedia, or WiccaMedia. Or WikiGrimoire, WickedGrimoire, but it starts drifting into something unrecognizable.
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy *here kid, catch*
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy I like that the conflict is against society rather than against her own choice to keep the bird around
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@davidrevoy I say we bring back Web Rings.
@jordan @davidrevoy word of mouth will always be the best publicity. I also like feed agreggators like bubbles.town and powrss.com . But those are more for discovery than search/research. -
The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy we need a series with just that red parrot robot getting up to no good or solving crime or something lol.
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@davidrevoy I like that the conflict is against society rather than against her own choice to keep the bird around
@andrewrk Thank you for noticing this change in the writing!
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
Makes me pine for card indexes
