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Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don't respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I'm not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

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[–] bananahammock@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I think they are referring to the search engines returning LLM content farm websites.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Maybe I’m a little out of the loop, what are llm content farm websites?

[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Low effort websites made easier by LLM generated text. It’s not new, just made easier with the ubiquity of LLM tools. Think of it as the latest generation of spam websites πŸ™ƒ

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah I see. Junk β€˜news’ and other regurgitated blah. Yeah, I’d guess any free search engine will probably be bloated with that. Not to mention that it’s google, bing, and orange bing. Not a ton of crawlers out there indexing everything is there?

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The only other (not absolutely tiny) one I'm aware of is brave, but it has its own issues

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