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  • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK about your search engines, and whether they have a independent search index or notEnglish
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    19 days ago

    You are still bringing the big providers traffic

    gonna be honest, this falls under the “no ethical consumption” bit for me. someone’s gonna get my traffic and ad revenue, i might as well get the best results for it. And to be honest, the best results i’ve had have been with paid, industry specific search engines. It removes some of the emotional barrier i’ve got toward trying some of the paid services like Kagi, just i’m on a pretty tight budget. $5/mo for 300 searches (do your unused searches roll over to the next month?) means i have to cut back somewhere, and we have been doing that month after month after month. A search engine just is not worth eating less. (note i did not say eating out less).

    search engines seem to be going the way of streaming sites. if you know where-ish to look, you can put the search in there. but there’s no good general, has everything except specialized knowledge search engine that i’ve found.

  • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule away RowlingEnglish
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    19 days ago

    ooo, thank you for the recommendation. I look forward to it. i was recently gifted Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. I know they say don’t judge a book by its cover, but i judged this one by its title and d(-_☆).

    The last three books that weren’t technical manuals i tried to read, i got 100 pages in and realized i hadn’t retained anything. working on it, but i’m not exactly excited about reading so much. goddamn grad school broke my brain.

  • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rule away RowlingEnglish
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    20 days ago

    If we’re recommending authors, my favorite is Jasper Fforde. He wrote this book called Shades of Grey (which unfortunately came out around the same time as that book) that’s about people who can only see one color (sorry, colour), and the hue that they can see determines their social standing. I have been waiting over a decade for the sequel and he just released it (Red Side Story) last year. My brain has been bad at letting me read books, so it sits on the shelf but I loved the first one.

    I really hope there’s no problematicism around him (as that’s the subject of the thread), but reading his books it’s hard to imagine there could be.