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Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Start using SearXNG.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

searX still uses the same search engines.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, however, using a public SearXNG instance makes your searches effectively private, since it’s the server doing them, not you. It also does not use generative AI to produce the results, and won’t until or unless the ability for normal searches is removed.

And at that point, you can just disable that engine for searching.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

from a privacy perspective..
you might as well use a vpn or tor. same thing.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, but that’s not the only benefit to it. It’s a metasearch engine, meaning it searches all the individual sites you ask for, and combines the results into one page. This makes it more akin to DDG, but it doesn’t just use one search provider.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

it's a fantastic metasearch engine. but also people frequently dont configure it to its max potential IMO . one common mishap is the frequent default setting of sending queries to google. 💩

[–] bradd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I legiterally have an LLM use searxng for me.

[–] ArdMacha@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But you don't use a spell check?

[–] bradd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

No, I don't, but the misspelling was intentional.

[–] Gerprimus@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you briefly explain how this works? Do you have a link or something similar?

[–] rdsm@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are many projects just search for clones of perplexity most use searxng + llms. I used one recently called yokingma / Search_with_ai But there are others

[–] Gerprimus@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the new rabbit hole! 😁