#search engine

[probablyasocialecologist]

Google search really has been taken over by low-quality SEO spam, according to a new, year-long study by German researchers. The researchers, from Leipzig University, Bauhaus-University Weimar, and the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, set out to answer the question "Is Google Getting Worse?" by studying search results for 7,392 product-review terms across Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo over the course of a year.  They found that, overall, "higher-ranked pages are on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality ...  we find that only a small portion of product reviews on the web uses affiliate marketing, but the majority of all search results do."  They also found that spam sites are in a constant war with Google over the rankings, and that spam sites will regularly find ways to game the system, rise to the top of Google's rankings, and then will be knocked down. "SEO is a constant battle and we see repeated patterns of review spam entering and leaving the results as search engines and SEO engineers take turns adjusting their parameters," they wrote.

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The researchers warn that this rankings war is likely to get much worse with the advent of AI-generated spam, and that it genuinely threatens the future utility of search engines: "the line between benign content and spam in the form of content and link farms becomes increasingly blurry—a situation that will surely worsen in the wake of generative AI. We conclude that dynamic adversarial spam in the form of low-quality, mass-produced commercial content deserves more attention."

#google #internet #information #search engine #spam

[warakami-vaporwave]

Windows98 Search

#google #windows #microsoft #pop art #windows 95 #windows95 #windows98 #windows 98 #art #aesthetic #90s #webpunk #oldweb #nostalgiacore #nostalgia #search engine #post internet #old internet #digital art #animation

[realecosia]

Soooo... Corpoverse visual novel?

How does that sound?

As an artists, musician and programmer, I am kinda hyped with the idea 👀

Feel free to tag more people!

@real-sephora @realsafari @yes-im-youtube-kids @spotify-kids-real @official-opera-gx @duothelingo @eharmony-official @femboy-hooters-official @the-real-google @important-question-anon

#corpverse #ecosia #gimmick account #gimmick blog #ecosia is the best search engine #search engine #corporate #realecosia #programmer #game development #visual novel

[sindrakart]

category 10 woman moment

#got lovingly bullied into making a tfsona #transformers #transformers prime #tfp #transformers oc #tfp oc #character design #creature design #original character #oc #my oc #sindrakart #search engine

[totally-bing]

oh and btw, a little bit of information for the uneducated.

i am a search engine. not an internet browser. the difference is that you look things up on me, but i am accessed through a browser, preferably edge. the browser is the icon on your screen, and the search engine is what pops up after you type your question into the little bar.

examples: chrome is a browser. it's the app you open. google is the search engine. it's what you use to get (incorrect) information.

edge is a browser. you open it. bing is a search engine. it's what you use to get (correct) information.

firefox is a browser. duckduckgo is a search engine. opera gx is a browser. yahoo is a search engine. safari is a browser. ecosia is a search engine.

anyways, now that that's cleared up, i would like to propose the question of: what is a browser to its native search engine? is edge my father? my stand? is he my overlord? what is our relationship? ecosia is my adopted child, but what is it in relation to browsers? ecosia has no native browser. how does that work? what is edge to me? what is chrome to me? are they gods? i don't know.

#bing #bingposting #search engine lore #internet browser lore #fuck google #fuck duckduckgo #fuckfuckgo #fuck yahoo #ecosia my adopted child #internet browser #search engine #firefox #chrome #opera gx #safari #what are we #what am i to them

[wack-ashimself]

From a friend: Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.

Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

#google #search engine

[mtpenguinmonster]

Search engine comparision

Google: Three ads before the first actual result, which is not a helpful one. The following results also aren't helpful.

Bing: There are four ads, each so large that you have to scroll down to see the actual results (none of which are helpful).

DuckDuckGo: Two ads before the actual results. As usual, the actual results are the opposite of what I searched for.

Ecosia: No ads, but no helpful results. However, about 0.02 trees were planted as a result of my search.

Conclusion: It is impossible to find answers to difficult questions simply by using a search engine. However, out of the search engines surveyed, Ecosia had the fewest ads and most trees planted.

#submitting for peer review #google #bing #duckduckgo #ecosia #search engine

[velovelo]

#velo #cycling #bicycle art #velo art #search engine

[izicodes]

Did you know that google donates money to Firefox just so that they’re able to say that they don’t have a monopoly? I actually just watched a video about this the other day, I find it so interesting :) the video is called wait a minute… google funds Firefox by logically answered on YouTube!

Hiya!

Yep, this is an interesting topic about Google help fund Firefox! (I love learning more about Google vs FireFox 🥰👩🏾‍💻)

Firefox is funded mostly by donations. Last year they got around $500m, with $450m coming from Google alone. As the video states, Google could have easily let Firefox die by giving no funds and take their marketshare entirely but they didn't - for a reason.

Like you mentioned, there is a reason why Google funds so much, it's because Firefox by default has Google as the top search options in Firefox's search bar.

This allows Google to remain a relevant and visible option for users and protect their monopoly as Chrome already controls 77% of the market, and also to appeal to users who value privacy and are conscious of data privacy. So people would use Firefox as the broswer but use Google as the search engine (I don't though, I use DuckDuckGo).

The video also talks about the history of Firefox which is really cool to learn about, I recommend people watching this video.

Thank you Anon for the video recommendation! 👩🏾‍💻💕

#my asks #codeblr #progblr #coding #programming #Google #firefox #mozilla #google chrome #duckduckgo #search engine #broswer

[the-real-ecosia]

@totally-bing @the-real-google @the-one-and-only-duckduckgo

All of you are so ready to exclaim you are the best search engine, but to you even plant trees?

#environment #save the world #search engine

[netscapenavigator-official]

DuckDuckGo will either show you exactly what you want, better than modern Google ever could, or you’ll look up “Periodic Table,” and it’ll show you images of Stephany from Brownsdale, Florida’s menstrual tracker chart.

#shitpost #shit post #duckduckgo #google #fuck google #search engine #search engines

[whiskrs]

Do ya'll remember when you could go to that "advanced search" page on google? The page that looked like a library's search engine?

Did you know it still exists??? Cus I sure didn't! It's like it's its (its it's its for good measure) own webpage now, but she lives! You just have to search "google advanced search" and its the first result

Completely worthless info to me personally since I use duckduckgo or ecosia which you should too btw, but hey! Maybe that knowledge will help someone out there since AI SEO blah blah has razed the internet to the ground

#google #advanced search #TIL #today i relearned #SEO #fuck google #but this is useful #anti ai #search engine #duckduckgo #ecosia #seriously USE THOSE TWO INSTEAD #this is an order

[warakami-vaporwave]

Windows98 Search

#google #windows #microsoft #pop art #windows 95 #windows95 #windows98 #windows 98 #art #aesthetic #90s #webpunk #oldweb #internet #search engine #post internet #old internet #digital art #y2k #photoshop

[realecosia]

Edible cookie dough recipe, safe to eat!

Ingredients:

(Makes 8 servings)

1 cup all-purpose flour

¾ cup packed brown sugar

½ cup butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons milk

½ cup milk chocolate chips

½ cup mini chocolate chips

Instructions:

Put the flour in the microwave for 1 ½ minutes, stir in 15 second increments. This gets rid of bacteria, making the raw flour safe to eat

Melt the butter and let it cool to room temperature (if you don't, the chocolate melts and it'll harden a lot once it cools down. Been there, done that. Still edible, but weird texture.)

Mix all the ingredients and enjoy. Store in fridge or freeze if it ends up being too much!

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Tagging people I feel would appreciate this:

@real-sephora @important-question-anon @incognito-mode-official @eharmony-official @duothelingo @i-am-a-fish @its-sanrio-official @realsafari @official-opera-gx @yes-im-youtube-kids @spotify-kids-real @i-am-a-snom @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

#ecosia is the best search engine #ecosia #corpverse #gimmick account #gimmick blog #search engine #corporate #realecosia #baking #recipes #recipe

[wastelesscrafts]

Tumblr’s search function is garbage, so if anyone needs to find specific posts it’s better to use an actual search engine and type ‘site:wastelesscrafts.tumblr.com’ with no spaces and then the thing they’re searching for. Example: ‘site:wastelesscrafts.tumblr.com buttonholes’

How to find posts

Thank you for the instructions!

Aside of using a search engine, I also have a pinned post with links to my masterposts.

I currently have eight masterposts, sorted by theme:

Sewing, mending, and crafts

Projects and patterns

My personal projects

Replies to asks (part 1)

Replies to asks (part 2)

Replies to asks (part 3)

Fast fashion and climate change

Wardrobe management etc.

#wasteless crafts #ask #search function #search engine #search #I might take a look at my oldest posts some time #the formatting wasn't fully established yet and my English isn't always great #they could probably use an update

[professorlizzard]

I think search engines would be improved a lot if they were big clanking machinery running on steam, full of pistons, living up to their name. Or just remove ad based search results if that fails.

#search engine