[PLUG] web search post filtering

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 06:31:55AM -0700, brooks at netgate.net wrote:
> 
> It's not the solution you're seeking (I know of no such plugin) but
> maybe a switch to duckduckgo instead of Google or Bing might make
> things a little better. They don't collect or use tracking data to
> mung your search results with crap.
> 
> 	https://duckduckgo.com/

I've been using duckduckgo for a while.  Tracking is an
issue, but my concern is the hours and hours wasted 
manually scrolling through and looking at the crap
results to see if (not just where) any useful results are
hidden among the crap results.  To start with, discarding
ALL results that do not contain my search words.

There is no button on google, duckduckgo, or bing for
"these results are crap, fix the algorithm and replace
the incompetent programmers who wrote the algorithm."

Presumably this is because the profit-seeking search engine
companies are delivering exactly the results their paying
customers want to deliver to me.  Search engines are "push"
advertising tools for those paying advertisers.  The "pull"
that duckduckgo allegedly doesn't do per individual is
still done to all their "anonymous" users AS A GROUP.  
And very inefficiently, for them and especially for me.

I may not be a trackable individual to duckduckgo, but I
am part of a trackable group of people whose homes are
filling and bank accounts depleting as the search engine
companies improve their ability to manipulate my purchase
(and voting) patterns.  Weapons of mass distraction.

If I can (somehow) do my own "user side" filtering, I can
download hundreds of thousands of hits per day and let my
own user-controlled code and compute hardware hunt among
them for the five or ten that I really want.  I'll pay
dearly to curate my own attention and intellectual freedom.

The "truth is out there", but it is buried under a
mountain of sugar-coated excrement.

A radical, user/hacker driven search-engine revolution is
way overdue.  Job one for the search engine companies is
to make sure potential radicals are way busy buying crap
and working crap jobs to pay for it, rather than smash the
status quo, like a previous generation did to build linux.

The revolution will not be televised ... or you-tubed.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com