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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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 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

[–] anothermember 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ironically one of DDG's early selling points, before they fully jumped on the privacy bandwagon, was that they would filter out results for low-effort content farms (this was pre-LLM stuff).

I had used DDG since almost the beginning and it was one of the things I was originally sold on. It's difficult to find a source for it now but I did find this: https://web.archive.org/web/20110608072253/https://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=377&bpid=25532

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