Which if any have you done in order to reduce the amount of "AI" generated material in search results?

@dmarti for a while i had my "default search engine" set to udm14, but it just wasn't enough, i'm now using kagi which allows me to hide the ai options completely and hide ai images from image search.

@mcc @dmarti very big ups for Kagi.

@kevinriggle @dmarti well, not to give them more credit than they deserve, they're still an AI company, hiding the AI requires at least some understanding of CSS and it doesn't help with the mobile app, there's no way to opt out of buying AI credits with your subscription, and I had been a paying user less than 48 hours when I first got into an argument with the CEO of the company about AI (he's for it)

@mcc @dmarti true, though I have found it sufficiently easy to ignore all of their generative AI stuff without any CSS hacking that I forget they have it

@mcc @dmarti and I would pay the same price for the service with or without some genAI credits that I'm not going to use.

@kevinriggle @dmarti yes, but if i could avoid it, i would never give money to a company which also has a genAI product

@dmarti I recently blogged about my approach to search and motivations beyond avoiding AI content:

https://cryptography.dog/blog/diversifying-your-search-engine-portfolio/

@ansuz Thank you, will try some of these. My approach is more try to get the old Google back (just removing AI Overviews doesn't do it, because a lot of slop over-SEOed sites do too well now...in order to get decent results you also have to start block-listing those) https://blog.zgp.org/fix-google-search/

@ansuz @dmarti An interesting list, but the absence of Kagi is a rather glaring hole ... I switched over a while ago and have not been even mildly tempted to look back.

@corbet @dmarti the purpose of the article was to give a broad range of ways that most people could reduce the money google makes from their searches. My assumption is that many people in that intended audience wouldn't be willing or able to spend 60-300 USD a year on a search engine.

Aside from that, I have zero experience with their service, so I'm not really willing to promote it at this time.