[PLUG] web search post filtering

[Jason Barnett]

you might want to try www.dogpile.com. It is a meta-search engine, so more
difficult for any one search provider to skew the results.
Also, it appears that the "+" and "-" search modifiers do affect the
results. I am not sure if it is because of something that Dogpile does or
if one or more of the search engines it uses respects those modifiers.



On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:17 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> 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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