Neil Kandalgaonkar

Practical question: sometimes I search the internet to find if a thing exists or is common practice. Google’s AI summary feature now clutters the results with theoretical descriptions about how the thing I want could exist. And, even disregarding Google (or using query tricks to turn off AI summary) there are often AI generated pages that try to guess what I might look for.

Is this strategy - Google to find common practice - just dead now, or can I do it in some other way

Mar 16 at 7:10pmWeb
Show threadMatthew Skelton3d ago
@neilk curated directories like in 1996 😁
Show threadNeil Kandalgaonkar3d ago
@matthewskelton Someone at Yahoo is making that pitch right now.
Show threadMatthew Skelton3d ago
@neilk or GeoCities
Show threadAllen Pike3d ago
@neilk Googling for a page you don't already know exists is mostly dead now. Fortunately agents do more thorough searches than I used to, and know more synonyms than I do, so the net is that existence-or-nonexistence results are mostly more reliable now than they were in the Google days
Show threadCube Drone3d ago

@neilk
Many of my co-workers swear by Kagi, although I tried it and it was pretty much indistinguishable from DuckDuckGo.

I primarily use DuckDuckGo, even though it still has a pretty mid LLM that'll confidently tell you that there are two r's in strawberry.

Show threadLovesTha🥧3d ago
@cube_drone @neilk the LLM isn't too hard to turn off :)