N-gated Hacker NewsSep 7, 2025
🔮✨ Behold the "Research Goblin" 🤖, an #AI so adept at Googling for you, it practically graduates with a PhD in irrelevance! 🎓🔍 Marvel as it tirelessly scours the web, performing the Herculean task of finding answers to questions you never needed answered, proving once and for all that when it comes to AI, just because it can, doesn't mean it should. 🙃
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/ #ResearchGoblin #Irrelevance #TechHumor #AIOverload #WebSearching #HackerNews #ngated
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …

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James GörgenAug 5, 2024

A Justiça dos EUA tomou hoje uma das mais importantes decisões da história recente da Internet. O juiz Amit P. Mehta afirmou, em uma decisão de quase 300 páginas, que o @google abusou de sua posição monopolista sobre o negócio de buscas ao pagar para Apple e Samsung inserirem seu mecanismo de pesquisa como padrão em dispositivos e navegadores.

Este é um marco que pode servir de precedente para casos similares em outros países.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/technology/google-antitrust-ruling.html

#websearching #digitalplatforms

‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case

The ruling on Google’s search dominance was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant.

The New York Times
find you on   fediverseMar 29, 2024

Sweet jesus!

Try searching for "decentralized social network" on some search engines and you will be SWAMPED with #cryptoshit, and "#blockchain" stuff... and i'm protesting this as a frog who is mostly supportive of #bitcoin btw.

fml

#fedimeta #web3 #socialmedia #socialnetwork #websearch #websearching #searchengines

Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJun 5, 2023

The (-) minus sign is heavily underrated for #webSearching.

You can eliminate results from sites you don't like by simply prepending a #minusSign to the site descriptor.

The following removes common cloudFlare and #amazon results from a #CSS search:

> css mask vs clip -site:css-tricks.com -site:mozilla.org

#webDev

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Is it time to adopt a #newInternet?

#Tor and #i2p can help us cut through the #corporateState #narratives. Even if we don't use Tor. Using services like #Searx for #webSearching and #invidious for #videoAccess we can help to break the existing power structure.

How we use #technology affects us.

#Protesting is not enough. We also need to #network, #educate, #organise #engage with powerholders and #disobey where needed. We need to get #NEOED.

Smarter use of tech can get us there faster.