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What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The β€œpreview” for the chat feature requires the app or edge on desktop currently but I do find myself turning to it every time I get frustrated with a google search these days.

Less disappointing is probably the best discrimination as you said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I signed up for Kagi.com right after posting the above. I saw someone's recommended here in this thread and said what the heck!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the ChatGPT feature from desktop Firefox with no problems. Maybe it specifically denies Chrome, in which case I bet you could change the user agent string and get it to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It denies mobile. I was using Firefox. Same as Reddit, anything to try to force an app download.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just tried it again on desktop and it worked, but the reason was that I downloaded an extension a while ago and forgot about it. When I disabled the extension, it stopped working.

There used to be a way to enable installing any extension on mobile FFx Dev, but I'm not sure if that still works. The desktop extension just changes the user agent string, so that might be another route to enabling it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I downloaded Firefox Nightly on my phone about a week ago so that I can change my user agent string to get Google to stop F'ing up YouTube pages, but it doesn't seem to work. I guess I'll look into that extension. Do you know what it's called?