Lee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months agoFirst Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfiewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down10cross-posted to: wolnyinternet@szmer.info
arrow-up1240arrow-down1external-linkFirst Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfiewww.404media.coLee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square51fedilinkcross-posted to: wolnyinternet@szmer.info
minus-square@Byter@lemmy.onelinkfedilink1•edit-210 months agoMake an effort to use bangs and I bet you’ll stay under the limit. Edit: bang searches don’t count towards the limit Knowing I wanted a result from a certain site but using the search engine to get there was a (bad) habit I brought over from Google. !imdb barbie !w mattel There’s even custom bangs, which is something DDG doesn’t give you: !libgen some book
minus-squareviqlinkfedilink1•10 months ago@Byter DDG claims 13.5k existing bangs, and here’s a form to add a new one https://duckduckgo.com/newbang @SoftestVoid
minus-square@Byter@lemmy.onelinkfedilink1•10 months agoBut they don’t allow bangs for sites that do illegal things like copyright infringement. Libgen was my example.
minus-squareviqlinkfedilink0•10 months ago@Byter allowing illegal stuff *and* taking money doesn’t bode that well for their longevity.
minus-square@Byter@lemmy.onelinkfedilink1•10 months agoCustom bangs are private to the user. It’s not dissimilar to saving a bookmark in your browser, except your bookmarks are hosted by someone else. It doesn’t have to be about legality either. Maybe you like a service that is being protested by DDG for whatever reason.
Make an effort to use bangs and I bet you’ll stay under the limit. Edit: bang searches don’t count towards the limit
Knowing I wanted a result from a certain site but using the search engine to get there was a (bad) habit I brought over from Google.
!imdb barbie
!w mattel
There’s even custom bangs, which is something DDG doesn’t give you: !libgen some book
@Byter
DDG claims 13.5k existing bangs, and here’s a form to add a new one https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
@SoftestVoid
But they don’t allow bangs for sites that do illegal things like copyright infringement. Libgen was my example.
@Byter allowing illegal stuff *and* taking money doesn’t bode that well for their longevity.
Custom bangs are private to the user. It’s not dissimilar to saving a bookmark in your browser, except your bookmarks are hosted by someone else.
It doesn’t have to be about legality either. Maybe you like a service that is being protested by DDG for whatever reason.