search

"Paying for Kagi today feels a lot like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday. Part of the deal is that you are paying for ad-free service, yes. But you’re also paying for noticeably higher quality." https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi

#Kagi #Google #search

90.63% of pages get no organic search traffic from Google, via ahrefs 59 blogging statistics for 2023

#blogging #search https://ahrefs.com/blog/blogging-statistics/

PeerTube results now show up in regular searches on Kagi, plus you can filter videos by "source" to see more PeerTube content.

#Fediverse #PeerTube #Kagi #Search

Postgres as a search engine
https://anyblockers.com/posts/postgres-as-a-search-engine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41343814

Build a retrieval system with semantic, full-text, & fuzzy search in Postgres to be used as a backbone in RAG pipelines.

We’ll combine 3 techniques:

* full-text search with tsvector
* semantic search with pgvector
* fuzzy matching with pg_trgm

* bonus: BM25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25
https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/elasticsearch_vs_postgres
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173288

#RDBMS #postgres #PostgreSQL #databases #search #SearchEngine #LLM #RAG #BM25

Google is innovating search in an amazing and yet predictable way — it’s removing the search results. There will only be the “AI Overview,” much loved by nobody.

You might think the point of search was to find a thing, then go to it. But then Google doesn’t make enough ad money. Trying to wheedle an answer out of a hallucinating robot might keep you on the page longer.

From https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/114122009704468173

Edit: Reading the Google blog post about this change more carefully (thanks @picklish ), it seems more of an experimental feature than a default. I think the worry that Google will eventually make "AI overview" the default is a real and valid one, but I don't it's the case right now. If it ever does happen we will need to stop using the word "Google" as a synonym for "search" and declare RIP Google, 1998 - 2025

#IR #InformationRetrieval #search #Google #RIPGoogle #AISlop

This is beyond…

#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.

#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html