Since the internet is now slop, ive been doing this with almost any search, and its sooooo good. Kagi is better, but this is free. I was getting so pissed off with how slopified search has become for everything.
Car repairs, gaming console questions, home repair, recipes, anything like that is SO much better with date range set to around before 2013 ish.
Unless you need the most up to date news, this is a great method. Only downside is remembering to change my search setting every time !
Yeah… when you are searching for solutions to linux stuff, looking too back in time can bite you because “that is not used anymore”
but good tip! Thanks
Guys, have you heard of this thing called Bitcoin? You can get a bunch of them for like $3, worth a try to see what happens!
Pretty sure it will go down to under 1$ so I would wait tbh
Yeah if you need up to date os info, this wont help haha
Yeah, but for that there’s your distro forum no?
I’ve been using Qwant, it’s been great. Ecosia is good though.
Another is to use ublacklist (if you aren’t already using ublock origin for some inexplicable reason) and add in AI/SEO slop blacklists. They will be filtered out of search.
Oh, and use the wiki redirect extension.
It doesn’t fix everything, but it’s a massive improvement for when the information you need is pretty recent.
Also, FYI the Kagi browser is great.
What is a good AI slop blacklist, if you could point me to one :)
Thank you!
I don’t know. Most search engines are ignoring like 50% of my search terms. A date range won’t fix that.
This reminds me that I need to give Kagi a try. Even DDG is getting worse because the internet itself is getting worse.
Kagi user here, I think it’s great and definitely worth its price.
