• TrumpetX@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        Pay to play was the problem there. I had the highest ranking joke page on webcrawler for a stint, but Yahoo wanted $500 to put me on top. My 15 year old self was not interested.

      • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        That’s pretty much what all of the site aggregators were. I ran a couple of communities on yahoo and some other sites. There were also services like Archie, gopher, and wais, and I am pretty sure my Usenet client had some searching on it (it might have been emacs - I can’t remember anymore). I remember when Google debuted on Stanford.edu/google and realized that everything was about to change.

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      7 months ago

      Or AI to rank and filter out the things you need based on public indexing. Preferably there’d be several AI assistants to choose from. Things seem to be moving in that direction anyway.

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        7 months ago

        The problem is that personalization of search results tends to information bubbles. That is the reason why I prefer DDG over Google.

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          7 months ago

          While this is true (and a problem with current engines like Google), I could see having a local LLM doing the filtering for you based on your own criteria. Then you could do a wide-open search as needed, or with minimal filtering, etc.

          When I’m searching for technical stuff (Android rom, Linux commands/how it works), it would be really helpful to have some really capable filtering mechanisms that have learned.

          When I want to find something from a headline, then it needs to be mostly open (well, maybe filtering out The Weekly World News).

          But it really needs to be done by my own instance of an LLM/AI, not something controlled elsewhere.