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What websites search function do you hate most? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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First of all google went to shit, but duckduckgo has been disappointing me too.

I moved to searx and it was decent but confused me a bit and not always reliable.

But the single biggest problem on the internet for me... The yt search bar. My god I fucking hate it with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.

Its not usable. 90% of the time I'm getting random Indian videos with nothing to do woth my search, shorts (which I blocked in revanced so thats fine now) and people also watch or recommended videos from my user profile.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's been going pretty steadily downhill for about 10 years now, but with the addition of the AI bullshit on top of the other SEO issues, it's basically useless now.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah. Even duckduckgo added ai.

Plus they dont use the best models which makes it even worse

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s at least has an easily acceptable option to disable it

[–] ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah but only if you keep cookies enabled. The default Librewolf settings has the bullshit AI come back every time, so its still somewhat of a pain.

[–] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 2 points 23 hours ago

Iirc DDG had a feature that allowed you to save its settings without cookies as a url. So you might be able to bookmark it with ai disabled and then it should also work in Librewolf

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

It's a stable target ar least, Ublock Origin and filter like: