There was this sweet spot where you could both ask it a question in almost natural language, but also use very simple operators to fine tune your results massively.
Then SEO became an offshoot of marketing, and it started to get worse and worse, until 90% of it was sponsored content of some sort
Now, I have no idea what’s going on. It’s like search engines have collectively decided “hey, remember that thing when we helped people find information they were looking for? What if we just didn’t do that anymore?”
I just go to Wikipedia now, fuck them search engines.
Actually, their current events section is a great way to get the gist of things without giving clicks to corpo fearmongers.
I’ll check that out, my questions are mostly very specific technical ones unfortunately. But after I forbid myself from Reddit, I do feel like I could use some new info streams…I feel healthier using Lemmy, but there is a bias… a bias I tend to agree with, but you need multiple viewpoints to circle in on the actual truth
Personally, I’ve been using language models. Not good for current streams, but for general, or even specific knowledge? Hugging faces hosts a ton of AI, if you find one trained for a specific purpose you can get pretty decent results directly.
Your mileage may vary, obviously
