RE: https://mastodon.social/@ottaross/115905574884070113

I have just spent the last little while altering my search engine settings on three browsers; replacing DuckDuckGo with No-AI DuckDuckGo, and adding No-AI Qwant. And then doing it all again because I made mistakes. It's fine now, though. I think.

#InternetSearch #DeGoogle #WebSearch

You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch

I seem to be on a roll with my blog lately, surpassing my goal of at least one post a month.

#InternetSearch: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/12/internet-search-yesterday-today-tomorrow.html

Today is #FreeWebSearch Day! 🔎🌐

Free Web Search Day is an annual event promoting free, open and transparent #internetsearch.

As a partner in the @openwebsearcheu project, LRZ is working on the development of a European infrastructure for #websearch. Find out why this is important in this video: https://vimeo.com/1072290094/2ae3702438?share=copy

Further information about Free Web Search Day: https://freewebsearch.org/

#Internet #freeinternet #FWSD #FreeWebSearchDay

Advice from my former employer.

"Public media is facing cuts and new challenges and your trust means a lot. By choosing MPR News as a preferred source, you’re supporting independent, fact-checked local journalism."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/09/choose-mpr-news-how-to-get-google-to-show-our-stories-in-your-search-results

#PublicMedia #InternetSearch #journalism

Techdirt: New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’. “…now, as a sneaky amendment to a completely unrelated bill, Russia has passed a law that will criminalize searching for any content the Russian government decides is verboten.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/techdirt-new-russian-law-will-criminalize-internet-searches-for-extremist-content/

Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663227

Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.

#GoogleSearch #SERP #LLM #InternetSearch