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While I appreciate the author's work, I suggest ditching Google Search altogether in favor of DuckDuckGo or anything else. At this point I only use Google when I need to buy something, as Google has become an expert in finding products tailored to my needs (but not in checking knowledge/facts - my go to here is ChatGPT/Wikipedia)

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ChatGPT is the last place you should go for facts. It's a language model, not a data model, it only knows what words usually statistically follow another one, it doesn't know anything about facts. Granted, it's very good at sounding like it does, but you never know when it hallucinates.

Use FastGPT by kagi search. All its statements come with the web source snnoted to research or verfiy the claims.

https://kagi.com/fastgpt

While better, it still gets things wrong.

Seems more accurate than most Google search results

Same with google search.

I am aware of this. But my daily questions these days revolve around TypeScript or something as silly as "what is the average weight of a cat". Back in a days it took like 10 sec to get this from google, but now it's just a pain in the back to open all the websites, accepting cookings... and you know the drill.

This works for DuckDuckGo along with several other search engines listed on their Readme. I suggest using SearXNG instead as DuckDuckGo is also a problem now: https://www.wired.com/story/duckduckgo-microsoft-twitter-ft-...

It works with DuckDuckGo as well. I like the privacy focus of DuckDuckGo but it doesn't seem much better than Google when it comes to promoting garbage sites like slant.co over information written by a well informed human being.

Exactly. It actually feels to me that it does worse than google in this regard.

How is this relevant to the post?

It's just that Google search results are now full of ads, so I suggest changing the search engine altogether and not just blocking certain sites. Does it make it more relevant to you?

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