@zoekeating.com

Hey, at least there is a UK based old school search engine now, that respects privacy, and does not use Google's index (like Startpage) or Microsoft's (like DuckDuckGo) at all - https://mojeek.com
Does it give great results all the tjme? Ummm, not quite, but at least it is a nice option to have, that is a "work in progress"


#Mojeek #Google #Bing #AI #enshittification #privacy #duckduckgo #searchengines #foss #alternativeto
Mojeek

Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.

Ranking vs Reasoning: Two Different Logics of Information

An analysis of how traditional search ranking systems differ from AI reasoning systems, and what this shift means for information access, incentives, and digital infrastructure.

Brandon Himpfen
Ranking vs Reasoning: Two Different Logics of Information

An analysis of how traditional search ranking systems differ from AI reasoning systems, and what this shift means for information access, incentives, and digital infrastructure.

Brandon Himpfen

The Conversation: Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe. “Search engines rely on articles and text about a given topic, and then weigh how reliable those articles are. Generative AI instead relies on huge bodies of text, from which it measures the odds of words appearing next to each other. These ‘large language models’ are purely looking to generate […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/23/the-conversation-using-your-ai-chatbot-as-a-search-engine-be-careful-what-you-believe/
The Conversation: Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe

The Conversation: Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe. “Search engines rely on articles and text about a given topic, and then weigh how reliable those artic…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
Google dichtet mit KI Headlines in Suchergebnissen um

Überschriften von Nachrichtenartikeln werden in den Suchergebnissen teilweise von Googles KI geändert – ohne Einfluss der Autoren.

heise online

To do internet searches without getting that annoying #AIsummary (which usually makes for one more useless thing to scroll through to get to the links you want to see, and which wastes a large amount of electricity every time), you can add a simple bit of text at the beginning or end of your search query.

Type “hyphen AI” at the start or end of any search query to not get that annoying AI summary at the top of your search results (which usually makes for one more useless thing to scroll through to get to the links you want to see, and which wastes data center electricity every time).

For example:
-ai Names of all four Beatles
**OR**
Names of all four Beatles -ai

#AIprompts #GoogleTricks #AIsummaries #AI #GoogleSearching #GoogleSearch #InternetSearch #SearchEngines #Searches #Googling #AvoidingAI #NoAI

@thomkennon @GossiTheDog

Very interesting glimpse into the state of the art in internet-reputation-washing 5-15 years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html

On the one hand, it's easy to believe that progress on laundering #SearchEngines and #Wikipedia is difficult. On the other, many people who do this work seem to have an interest in exaggerating the difficulty, and falling short, in order to justify their existence and fees.

#JeffreyEpstein was also lucky that many people shared his name, and that contractors could credibly create new, fake Jeffrey Epsteins to clog search results. Harder to do for Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, etc.

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Push to Cleanse His Past Online

After he left jail in 2009, Mr. Epstein hired a host of people to make him look better on Google, Wikipedia and many other places on the web.

The New York Times
Himpfen Search: Rethinking the Search Interface for the AI Era

A design proposal exploring how search engines could evolve in the AI era with a three-panel interface separating history, AI understanding, and sources.

Brandon Himpfen

Axios: Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines. “Over the past two years, referral traffic from traditional search engines has declined by 60% for small publishers, compared with 47% for medium-sized publishers and 22% for large publishers, per Chartbeat.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/exclusive-small-publishers-hit-hardest-by-search-traffic-declines-axios/
Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines (Axios)

Axios: Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines. “Over the past two years, referral traffic from traditional search engines has declined by 60% for small publishers,…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Search Engine Roundtable: Google What People Are Saying With Popular & Latest Comments. “I am not sure how new this is but the What people are saying box within Google Search now also shows the more popular comments and latest comments for Reddit threads. I assume Google is able to get this data through its licensing deal with Reddit?”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/search-engine-roundtable-google-what-people-are-saying-with-popular-latest-comments/
Search Engine Roundtable: Google What People Are Saying With Popular & Latest Comments

Search Engine Roundtable: Google What People Are Saying With Popular & Latest Comments. “I am not sure how new this is but the What people are saying box within Google Search now also sh…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose