If search results just link to slop articles...

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Why do the article sites even exist anymore? Check out this link.

This is clearly a slop article. DDG results are chock full of this exact cookie cutter slop. Clearly if all I’m gonna find in search engines anymore is slop, I might as well just go straight to the source, right? How is this business model viable anymore?

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Indie/smallweb is promising and is growing.

https://indieweb.org/

There are indieweb dedicated spaces to search for these sites. Such as https://theindex.fyi/

It’s a return to a very non-corporate web experience.

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The search results only have slop articles because it’s increasingly difficult to find anything else. I heard that recent estimates are indicating about 50% of the content of the internet is already AI generated, and it’s only going to get worse, and it’s going to keep getting worse very rapidly. “Search” in the way we understand it is obsolete. I don’t know what the future of content discovery for real humans is going to look like, but I’m confident it’s not going to look anything like search. That’s broken and it’s never coming back.

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On DDG, You can send feedback about each result. I dunno if it actually does any good.

  • tap the three dot button next to the result
  • tap “share feedback about this site”
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Ooooh thanks for this!

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I think you forgot to finish the question in the post title

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Have you tried noai.DuckDuckGo.com? I’m curious if it gives different results.

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That’s funny. I do the opposite. I use the AI to do the searching and finding results of suitable quality is part of the prompt….

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^This

Unless your AI is grok or meta obviously

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