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It’s also really, really easy to lose your job as a pizza delivery person.

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I would say that there isn’t currently a “best alternative” but rather there is a small group of alternatives that each seem to have “use cases” as it were (shocker, kind of how it used to be in the 90s/00s before Google dominance). But even from person to person, people disagree on what the best use case for each is.

There’s some focused more on “privacy” like DuckDuckGo and searX.

I’ve heard Bing has pretty good results for anything AI related for all Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI.

I’ve heard good things about Qwant for music searches.

Someone else here in this thread just brought up Mojeek, which is supposed to be also privacy focused but includes searching by “emotion.”

Presearch is decentralized, but I haven’t looked “under the hood” of how its decentralization works.

Startpage is Google search results but behind a proxy so Google isn’t getting your info when you search.

I mean, it seems like there’s a lot of decent alternatives. I wouldn’t be surprised if what’s left of the shell of Yahoo! started investing in trying to outperform Google at this point.

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I don’t need a 27-page novel to know the temperature and time to cook something.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/recipe-filter/

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I’ve heard far more people using it for helping with simple coding exercises and helping them approach coding problems than I have heard of people using it for research.

I wouldn’t be doing much of any research through AI for exactly that reason myself. It hallucinates too much.

So, like I said, it depends on what you’re using each one for. People seem to be having success with Bing and programming, but less so with Bing and anything actually human-life related.

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It’s just a bit more complicated than that:

When people search, we believe they’re really looking for answers, as opposed to just links. For many categories of searches (restaurants, lyrics, weather, etc.), there is usually a specialized search engine (e.g., Tripadvisor), content site (e.g., Musixmatch), or dedicated source (e.g., Dark Sky) that does a better job of actually answering searches than a general search engine can with just links. Our long-term goal is to get you Instant Answers from these best sources.

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

Partners and Privacy: As per our strict privacy policy, we never share any personal information with any of our partners that could lead to the creation of search histories. When we send a request to a partner for information used in search results, the transfer of information is proxied through our servers so it stays anonymous. That means our partners see those requests as though they came from us instead of our users, and no unique identifiers are passed in that process (e.g., your IP address). That way, we can work with partners to produce relevant search result pages, while keeping you anonymous to them (and us!).

So they use some in-house tools and they source other results “largely” from Bing.

In other words:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/de952405-5d95-4e69-8eb5-efa8d715c1c6.png

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But do you remember Geocities?

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People who think Gale would be into metal at all have clearly not recognized him as Hipster Incarnate.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/213132d4-3645-4c62-8d69-fb89ca3d1a13.jpeg

Gale is on the right. “Danny Bear” of Toast of London.

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Me and the bald dude

I never made it past the starting area

In Baldurs Gate II???

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Shaka-brah!

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But do they have a certificate to prove they are not Donkey Brained?

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Someone was replaying Alan Wake.

…or just loves Harry Nilsson.

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I mean, I do love me some Nilsson.

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You know what you’ve done.

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“First lie they tell you is that I’m just a guy in a costume! I’m a genetic experiment gone wrong, babay!”

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Beer is just liquid bread.

When you’re half dead and need to be fed: Liquid Bread!

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Must be why the prayer goes “give us this day our daily beer.”

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how is babby formed

how girl get pragnent

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Sifl(us) & Orgy

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Everything said here in this comment is theoretical and in Minecraft.

If they are shutting down but haven’t shut down yet check to see if any other sites are doing open signups for refugees on your sites forums. That’s how I got elsewhere before baconbits shut down, with it being my only tracker.

The community really is a community and when they know in advance a site is shutting down, they usually get together and put out invites on that sites forums for others to use as an “escape hatch.” They will still want to see an account in good standing.

Also, take screenshots of your account info so when the site shuts down you can still use it as proof you had an account in good standing. Many sites still have open sign ups and good past accounts go a long way to being let in. I’m not sure if Lemmy has an open sign ups thread like reddit did.

If you can, try to “diversify” and get on a handful of sites, choosing ones particular to your interests, of course.

Anyway, good luck in avoiding all of that!

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baconbits had some good exodus sign ups to other sites at the end. you just had to check the forums.

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soulseek isn’t too shabby these days, either.

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knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-minecraft

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Just don’t break the second ru— d’oh!

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Jake: “What kind of music do you usually have here?”

Bartender: “Oh, we got both kinds. We got cyber and punk.”

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I am continuously floored by the sheer amount of options they put in for how you could handle quests. After decades of games that just spit a Game Over at you when you do a quest wrong, having a game that’s just like “lol game isn’t over, it’s just harder now” is so refreshing.

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