Anyone else obsessively switching search engines lately? I was a #DuckDuckGo user for many years, then switched to #Brave Search for a while. Went back to DDG, then discovered You.com. #YouChat became available and works quite well, but then I got access to #Bing Chat. I tried #Neeva for a bit, but it didn't really stick. Now, Brave has it's new Summarizer tool and there are extensions to add #ChatGPT results alongside just about any chat service.

Whew. Maybe I'll just go back to #AltaVista.

@hein @evawolfangel @MetaGer danke vielmals, ich probiers mal aus. Auf den ersten Blick wirken die Suchmaschinen aber schon ein bisschen wie früher #altavista. Ist aber wahrscheinlich Gewöhnungssache.

#Mastodon: Well, I have only been here for three days, but it feels very much like 1994 all over again: That first hesitant email, those first adventurous clicks on pre-#Google internet search engines. Remember grappling with these?

#WebCrawler
#Lycos
#AltaVista
#Excite
#Dogpile
#AskJeeves
#JumpStation

Let's be patient, progress may be happening before our eyes, again!

Ok nachdem ich jetzt 1100 Posts durchhabe und mich an Andreas Schildbach und dessen Probleme mit @GoogleDE erinnere https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/ kann ich nur feststellen #Google ist zu einem absoluten Arschloch verkommen von der #Altavista Konkurrenz von DEC zu einem Arschloch wie es