#search

New on PeerSeek: a proper watch page. Videos now play right on the site, with related videos and an autoplay queue. Search got smarter too. Tags work as search filters now, and you can filter for videos with subtitles in a language you actually speak. Results also show which videos have captions before you click. Related videos are much more on topic these days. Try it out at https://peerseek.video #peerseek #peertube #search #index #fediverse

If I made a Federated Search system, and it required 10 gigabytes on a server and 1 gb on a PC using it (caches). Would you host this? Would you use it? #Activitypub #search

List of Search Alternatives Suggested in "Search is Broken" Threads I plan on updating this. #search #ongoingList #searchEnginehttps://marginalia-search.com/ Message boards, academic https://uruky.com/ Pay to search, no ads

If you had to replace your current search workflow tomorrow...

What would you choose?

• ChatGPT Search
• Perplexity
• Google AI Mode
• Brave Search

#AI #Search #Technology

Police watchdog investigating death in Brockville, Ont., Thursday Ontario Provincial Police say someone died after police used a firearm while carrying out a search warrant in Brockville on Thursday evening. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/siu-opp-brockville-police-death-9.7299214?cmp=rss

I'm glad @Waterfox@mastodon.social Private Search has tweaked their UI to show more results, this makes it much more worthwhile and useful! Now if they could just stop emailing me a code when I have to log in (which seems very frequent). At least give me the option to use TOTP instead! #waterfox #WaterfoxPrivateSearch #search #totp #security #authentication

🎉 Loupe 1.0 is here! Production-proven full-text search for PHP, powered by SQLite - no containers, daemons or external services. Now with compound-word search and better result excerpts! https://github.com/loupe-php/loupe/releases/tag/1.0.0 #php #sqlite #loupe #search

One weird consequence of recent internet history: AI summaries often get around the problem of search engines returning masses of low-effort, low-quality, firewalled, or clickbait websites instead of actual information by giving users (possibly/probably accurate) information about many topics without what has become a familiar runaround. Try searching (regardless of the search engine) for information about a specific topic: in many cases, you can't find any information about it from the first page or two of search results, and you're likely to need to click through to a few pages before you find one that isn't content farmed, requiring an account, locked down, or low-quality/questionable shit made by an even dumber AI model than the one generating the search summary. Maybe this is one of those ubiquitous situations where many years of refusing to fix one set of problems left the field wide open for a worse set. #genAI #ai #search #internet

Looks like Flatpak discovery will move from one mostly generally accepted hub to a gazillion of repos since the performative LLM complaints have befallen the possible single hub. (Partially half-understandable arguments, partially performative fluff for my taste) Which is ok as it triggers competition that might lead to better outcomes. (bazaar vs cathedral and all, rite? 😏 ) And removes a possible single point of failure. Now what I'd like to see is an approach that does discovery of those repos and enables search across those repos without a single point of failure. As e.g. a single, centrally hosted index for repos to register to would be. Flatpak already uses a reverse-dns-namespace structure internally. Anything that would leverage that? Wouldn't help with enumeration though. Something something DHT/Gossip/...? (as the cool thing from the past) Clearly a problem that will arise with more of the expectable decentralized systems that need uniform discovery and search. What's the Fedis wisdom on current academic approaches that might be interesting around this? Or bastardized routing tech, yet another idea on how to twist DNS into a pretzel, etc? Dare I say: Blockchain (as the unpopular thing before the LLMs 🤣 ) Throw you best Arxiv posts etc. at me. I'm just curious about the state-of-the-art techn for now, all smirk and sarcasm aside. #discovery #search #decentralized #routing #dns #fedimeta #flathub #dht #cooltechfromthepast #llm #selfhosting #fossdrama #spof #singlepointoffailure

TIL: On DuckDuckGo, you can block specific sites from appearing in search results. Click on the three-dot drop-down menu on the right-hand side of the search result. (Shells KB is an AI-generated slop tutorial site btw. You should block it.) #DuckDuckGo #DDG #search #noai

Google's AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/googles-ai-search-is-rapidly-becoming-the-default-new-data-shows/ #AI #Search #Tech

Self-Host Weekly (24 July 2026) #Jellyfin leadership shake-ups, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #degoog - a #search engine aggregator, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap! https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-07-24/ #selfhost #selfhosted #foss #opensource #homelab #privacy#newsletter #fediverse #smarthome #photos #ai #openai #sysadmin #devops #reddit #lemmy #codeberg #vibecoding

Stay visible in the era of AI search https://www.fastcompany.com/91577614/stay-visible-in-the-era-of-ai-search #AI #Search #Business

Adnkronos - ultimoratop: Maxi multa Ue a Google: 890 mln di euro per abuso del Dma e concorrenza sleale (Adnkronos) - Google multata dall'Ue per 890 milioni di euro a causa di violazioni del Dma, evidenziando auto-preferenza su Search e restrizioni su Google Play Large fine for Google by the EU: €890 million for abuse of dominance and unfair competition. (Adnkronos) – Google fined by the EU for €890 million due to violations of DMA regulations, highlighting self-preference on Search and restrictions on Google Play. #Google #Search #GooglePlayhttps://www.adnkronos.com/internazionale/esteri/google-maxi-multa-ue-cifra-milionaria-accuse_4fM7rbGbrlS3Rd8jAYY4RU

Primo piano ANSA - ANSA.it: Maxi multa da 890 milioni a Google. La sanzione dell'Ue, nel mirino Search e Play Store Il colosso dovrà conformarsi alle decisioni entro 60 giorni A hefty fine of €890 million for Google. The EU sanction targets Search and the Play Store. The giant must comply with the decisions within 60 days. #Google #Searchhttps://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2026/07/23/maxi-multa-da-890-milioni-a-google.-la-sanzione-dellue-nel-mirino-search_9b8194c4-cfa2-4267-8257-1cb14fedae9d.html

Google and Bing power most ‘sovereign’ search engines in Europe and they collect the rent. Not Mojeek. The only search engine to build everything from the ground up with zero rent paid to Big Tech. https://www.mojeek.com #mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #sovereign #sovereignty

Two years of vector search at Notion: 10x scale, 1/10th cost https://www.notion.com/blog/two-years-of-vector-search-at-notion #Tech #AI #Search

I'm sorry to hear about the death of Roger Summit (at age 95), the brains behind #Dialog, the pioneering pre-web search engine and library of searchable academic databases. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/roger-summit-dead.html PS: Dialog was not free and not even close. But my college got two years of free connect time in 1990-91 on the condition that we keep logs and help the company learn what teachers and students wanted. I published my log in the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring 1994. https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120378-8894-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b#Philosophy #Search

Google’s $4trillion empire. 190,000 workers. $15billion marketing spend. Planetary dominance. The Galactic Empire vs The Rebel Alliance. Mojeek’s independent tech. Small team. No marketing budget. The rebels defending sovereignty. https://www.mojeek.com #mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #sovereign #sovereignty

Overheard two tourists at the local bakery: "Now we know that we can't trust AI for the bus schedule". #AI #search