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big_blindon Google Calls in Help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight

big_blindon OpenAI is in talks for tender offer that would value it at $29B

It’s still crazy to me how rapidly AI has grown in mainstream popularity and relevance in the past year. Curious to see this new market develop now with competitors like You.com’s YouChat coming onto the scene.

big_blindon A simpler way to search for everything startup related

Yeah I would agree with you that seems finicky. I think it works better for certain searches than others and is catered more to startup news than startup creation IMO

big_blindon A simpler way to search for everything startup related

When searching for anything related to startups, I often find a lot of unrelated content from blogs or low-quality websites that distract me from what I actually wanted to look for. Being fed up with Google, I started using this niche search engine https://you.com/for/startup that only shows information from a select number of apps and websites (TechCrunch, Crunchbase, AngelList) at once. It's pretty simple and clean.

Here are two example queries:

Earlybird VC: https://you.com/for/startup?q=Earlybird+VC

Simulate: https://you.com/for/startup?q=Simulate

big_blindon Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it

It's a little sad we have to '.edu' filter searches just to not be directed to SEO sites at this point. Kagi's and You.com's searches are really smooth and painless from this perspective. You.com also has built in site filtering which helps a ton.

big_blindon Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots

site:reddit just is the best search engine at this point. I still don't like Google though.

big_blindon Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots

I use beta search engines. On kagi.com and you.com you can preference and filter top sites. There's also no advertising on either. I've just stopped using Google altogether and its improved search so much.

big_blindon Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots

Yeah I use you.com and kagi.com. No advertising on either. Less SEO spam too it seems.

big_blindon The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art

I've been playing around with the Dall-E 2 website all day. It's simply amazing: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

big_blindon Does anyone else think Google search quality has gone downhill fast?

I personally switched search engines and it has made coding, general searches, and overall just browsing the internet 10x smoother. I tried a couple like DDG, Brave Search, and Kagi. I started using You.com and find the search results just better than Google's. Less SEO sites bogging down search results, website filtering, and optimized results layout.

big_blindon Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

It is especially frustrating to use when Google while coding. I've noticed an increase in SEO sites on Google that seem to just scrape Q&As from the internet and regurgitate them[0]. I've recently started trying other search engines like DuckDuckGo and You.com and thankfully haven't had any issues with these sorts of sites popping up as results. It makes debugging 10x faster not having to sift through so many fake answer sites.

[0] https://quick-adviser.com/how-do-i-use-google-calendar-in-dj...