joriki 12h ago

I think something has gone very wrong with my addons on #firefox... if I search for a single quote on #kagi the tab will eat all my memory and crash the browser

(doesn't happen in a clean ff profile)

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https://kagi.com/search?q=%27

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch1d ago

Whenever I look for recipes online I feel the strong urge to post a rant very much like this, so I'm happy to share this instead as it saves me a ton of writing, and I'll just add a few thoughts of my own.

https://bruceblog.bearblog.dev/oncookingsites/

I'm not so much bothered by the flood of ads and videos as that can be easily fixed with an adblocker. What I can't wrap my head around is how Google very visibly makes the web a worse place, forcing people to fill it with tons of SEO bullshit to please Google's algorithm (if they care to be found that is). Recipe sites make this painfully visible. Every recipe these days comes with one or two pages of SEO bollocks you gotta skip through to get to the recipe. I assume they're mostly AI generated slop these days and I can't even blame them for saving themselves some work as no one's ever gonna read that shit anyways, besides Google's crawlers. The readers know it's bullshit, people even made browser add-ons that remove the garbage and/or extract/scrape the recipe part somehow. The creators know it's bullshit and you'll find a "jump to recipe" (or rather "skip the bullshit") button at the top of most recipe pages these days. Google (most likely) is aware that this is bullshit, however they have no urge whatsoever to improve their search as they know websites gotta cater to their crap algorithms if they want to exist. So instead of Google fixing it (which they easily could), everyone just plays along and finds their own ways to cope and work around Google, be it with browser add-ons or "skip the SEO trash that's here solely because Google demands it" buttons. It's just sad.

As for the rest of the post: amen!

PS: Thanks to @kagihq for their "small web", I most certainly would never have come across this post otherwise.

#recipes #google #seo #smallweb #kagi

a minor appreciation for the otherwise inexcusable behavior of cooking websites

My favorite recipes are all over. Screenshots, pdfs, bookmarked links, written note cards. Its a mess. But I do this because, well... <div style="text-al...

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Show threadDouglas Edwards 2d ago

@theowrites Would they be willing to pay for a subscription? I recently subscribed to #Kagi search, and I've found it to be far superior to any other search engine I've ever used, including #Google in its heyday. Ironically, the owner of Kagi is an AI enthusiast, and it does have AI features available, but in practice they're easier to ignore than the AI features of DuckDuckGo, which (as others have remarked) keeps trying to sneak AI back in.

Another tip is even simpler: don't have conversations with #LLMs. I've never spoken a word to an #LLM, except when a company refused to provide tech support any other way, and then only briefly.

Finally, stick to mobile devices as much as possible if they aren't willing to use Linux. As much as I hate Google, Android seems in practice to be less insistent than Microsoft Windows about forcing AI on its users.

Or try Linux on the desktop — modern user-friendly distributions like Ubuntu can just be USED, they don't need to be "learned" any more than MS Windows does. Perceptions to the contrary are due to selective bias. People think they "ought" to understand MS Windows because "everybody uses it", so when they have problems with it, they blame themselves. But when they have problems with Linux, they blame it on Linux.

philip2d ago
To me the problem with #smolweb is that there's isn't a browser that applies these rules. #Dillo comes close, even though it needs a makeover.

Dillo also has an rdrview plugin, but you have to manually write rdrview: in front of the url in the url bar of every page to see the results.

A better solution would be a content filter, like a #smolweb plugin that filters the entire html page rejecting anything that doesn't pass the smolweb validator, or passing it to rdrview. Degrees of acceptance could be set in settings.

A dedicated browser wouldn't require searching for #smolweb / #smallweb / #indieweb blogs, sites, or articles. (There seems to be no such thing as a #smolweb search engine, although points for #wiby, #marginalia, #kagi and #mojeek).

Just point the browser to any web site and if it borks, display the "errors" or ignore it with a 418 I'm a teapot error: after all it's the web site author's responsibility to provide clean, readable web sites.

Imagine a world where this plugin would be as ubiquitous as ublock-origin, it could even change web site development.
smolweb-validator

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

Eric4d ago
Today's #kagi search result of the day
Kagi HQ4d ago

We've added dice rolling support for all you gamers out there.

#Kagi #Search

Spiegel＠ナナシビト4d ago
＞ChatGPT内に広告表示、日本でOpenAIが展開　電通や博報堂が仲介 - 日本経済新聞 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ... ChatGPT の広告についてはここが詳しいか？ www.leadplus.co.jp/blog/cha... 無料または Go プランの成人ユーザのみ対象。えげつない広告が出そうだw まぁ，タダほど高いものはないっちうことで。私は #Kagi Assistant を使ってるので関係ない

ChatGPT内に広告表示、日本でOpenAIが展開　電通や...
ChatGPT内に広告表示、日本でOpenAIが展開　電通や博報堂が仲介 - 日本経済新聞

米オープンAIは近く日本で広告配信を始める。生成AI（人工知能）「Chat（チャット）GPT」で対話中に、利用者の関心が高い広告を表示する。生成AIが検索に取ってかわりつつあるなか、広告でも影響力を持つことになる。広告の中心は紙・テレビからデジタルへと変わってきた。米グーグルなどプラットフォーマーは検索エンジンと連動させ、広告で主導権をとってきた。生成AIの普及が進むなか、テック大手も対応を迫

日本経済新聞
Spiegel＠がんばらない4d ago

＞ChatGPT内に広告表示、日本でOpenAIが展開　電通や博報堂が仲介 - 日本経済新聞
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC179OF0X10C26A6000000/

ChatGPT の広告についてはここが詳しいか？
https://www.leadplus.co.jp/blog/chatgpt-advertising

無料または Go プランの成人ユーザのみ対象。えげつない広告が出そうだw まぁ，タダほど高いものはないっちうことで。私は #Kagi Assistant を使ってるので関係ない

ChatGPT内に広告表示、日本でOpenAIが展開　電通や博報堂が仲介 - 日本経済新聞

米オープンAIは近く日本で広告配信を始める。生成AI（人工知能）「Chat（チャット）GPT」で対話中に、利用者の関心が高い広告を表示する。生成AIが検索に取ってかわりつつあるなか、広告でも影響力を持つことになる。広告の中心は紙・テレビからデジタルへと変わってきた。米グーグルなどプラットフォーマーは検索エンジンと連動させ、広告で主導権をとってきた。生成AIの普及が進むなか、テック大手も対応を迫

日本経済新聞
Edwinek4d ago

This is fast becoming the year of paying for quality with my modest amounts of money instead of paying for useless ads with enormous amounts of personal data.

From Google search to Kagi search
From Gmail to Proton Mail
NextDNS to get rid of remaining ads and trackers

#degoogle #bigTech #kagi #protonmail #adblocking #Privacy #security

Kagi HQ4d ago

Why fetch through clutter when you can cut straight to the chase?

#Kagi #Search