Never did Twitter but I like this. #introduction listening to #searchengine and doing my daily nighttime dishes. Big #hardfork fan too so Iβm loving this collab
Is it too late for #introduction? I work in healthcare and AI tech. I was never on Twitter, so this is my first profile for this style of social media. At the time I listened to #Searchengine, I was jogging and playing Mario Kart. I can do both at once, but don't really excel at either.
Hello #forkiverse ! I'm Shelby. I'm a chronic hobby-switcher, reader/writer, and moderately neglectful plant mom (which I'm working on). I'm also a drug and addiction policy researcher.
I was eating breakfast when I heard the #searchengine episode about the fediverse. Whether we're recreating something old or making something new, I'm excited to be along for the ride. #introduction
Photo of several breakfast items (French press, several mugs, chia pudding, and toaster strudel) on a plant-covered table.
Could I be the first Phorkizen in the forkiverse? Feeling a feeling I forgot. Not sure if this is DejaVu or JamaisVu but Iβm glad I made it here in time! My #introduction was listening to #searchengine in my car. No photo evidence uploaded to save the gigabytes. π¦
Never heard of this #searchengine#podcast before but nice to see they have a bit of a reach and that they gave the #fediverse a shout out. Saw a lot of new #introduction posts mentioning this podcast and I'm amazing they got so many people to give it a try
A pair of black over-ear headphones resting on a weathered wooden fence post in the snow. A handwritten note on white tape is stuck to the post between the ear cups. It reads "HELLO WORLD" in black marker, but the word "WORLD" is crossed out with a red strikethrough, and "FORKIVERSE" is written underneath in red.
I am dreaming of a somehow human-curated privacy-respectful search engine that returns results that are free from all this intolerable AI-slop soup pollution, simply while using good old keywords.
Wouldn't that be great?
Wouldn't that be the future? ππ±
jakie macie doΕwiadczenie z alternatywami do gugla? Po uΕΌywaΕem trochΔ Kagi ale okazuje siΔ ΕΌe 300 wyszukiwan za 6 euro to za maΕo u mnie :) A ejaje darmowe mi wystarczajΔ o ile uΕΌywam nie za duΕΌo
MyΕlΔ o qwant albo metager oba w EU.
UΕΌywaΕ ktoΕ moΕΌe? #EUAlternatives#searchengine#qwant#metager
Next to each result is a small block icon which adds the domain to the filter and not 1 link of this site will reappear in your results.
Each time the result of a website is clearly #ai generated I block the whole domain. Last week I searched an issue about CNC milling and 9 out of the 10 first results on duckduckgo had been ai crap that didn't answer any questions but just rephrased a question multiple times.
Probably sysifus work but I'm feeling pretty good about making sure I'm never kicking a second time on basically fake links of fake websites.
Try it! If search engine companies can't do a good job or don't want to, I'm happy I can do it myself and stop them being able to show shit to me.
The Open Web Index (OWI) πͺπΊ is a European-based initiative designed to foster a competitive digital infrastructure that aligns with European values and promotes independence from US-centered search engines.
This project is a significant step towards ensuring digital sovereignty and stimulate innovation within the European digital landscape.
It aims to provide an open alternative to proprietary search indexes, thereby reducing the over-reliance on a few dominant vendors that currently control the search engine market. π
By doing so, it seeks to democratize access to information and ensure that the digital ecosystem remains diverse, competitive, and aligned with European standards and regulations.
The initiative is structured around several key steps, as illustrated in the image below. By visiting the page and clicking on the image, you can read more about each step associated with each phase:
The image provides a detailed overview of the Open Web Index (OWI) initiative, illustrating the process of index generation, search applications, and data products.
Index Generation
1. Selecting Web Resources:
Web pages are navigated, prioritized, and collected for analysis.
2. Storing Web Documents:
Multiple gatherers collect web documents and store them in web archives on a European server.
3. Content Extraction:
The content of web documents, such as words and images, is extracted.
4. Metadata Extraction:
Metadata, including publisher, author, and date, is extracted from the web documents.
5. Content Analysis:
Features of web documents are extracted, such as topic, language, quality, genre, legal constraints, and ethical aspects.
6. Index Building:
All extracted data from web documents are stored in a specialized database, known as the webindex.
7. Index Deployment:
The index is deployed in its full version at European data centers or sliced into smaller portions for specific purposes and made available for download.
Search Applications
Selecting Web Documents:
Web documents that fit the user search request are selected.
Ranking Web Documents:
The selected web documents are sorted (ranked) according to their assumed relevance for the user.
Purpose-Specific Search:
An application with a user interface enables the search for general or specific purposes.
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Resurrecting Qwant: New Owners Bet On GenAI To Provide Answers
Excerpt:
"Frankly, in 2019, building a search engine was not affordable for Qwant and it never was," he said. "The mistake was not to explain that and try to hide it. Qwant has been focused on privacy. And the team had worked hard on a solution with Microsoft that meant it didn't share data with Microsoft."
Even now, New Qwant will need a 3rd party to help with long-tail search results. Still, the transformation at New Qwant was underway when Microsoft dropped a bomb: It was dramatically raising its search API rates. This change also hit other search engines like Ecosia that relied on Bing.
"18 months ago, Microsoft changed access to Bing's search API," he said. "They increased the price without any good reason. All of us realized that we were so dependent on Microsoft that their strategy change could kill us. We decided we should not be in the passenger side but that we should be in the driver's seat."
So Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to create a 50-50 joint venture called the European Search Perspective (EUSP). Qwant will transfer the search indexing infrastructure it was building as well as some of its engineers and data scientists. Ecosia is making a cash contribution."
The #FollowFriday tradition is a popular social media practice that has spread to various platforms, including Mastodon. The idea of recommending interesting accounts to follow every Friday started on Twitter in 2009. You can use the hashtag #FollowFriday or just #FF. This idea quickly became popular and spread to other social media platforms, including Mastodon it isnβt different.
Our #FollowFriday posts are a great way to suggest people follow great companies, non-profits, founders and open-source projects that have created and built brilliant European alternatives to foreign products and services.
We propose a new theme on a weekly basis, and to that effect here is a list of accounts to be followed on Mastodon for those interested in email providers and search engines:
"No AI Duckduckgo | Searching the Web without AI Annoyances" ππ
"No AI Duckduckgo | Searching the Web without AI Annoyances" ππ ...