I saw an ad for a new search engine called “Freespoke” and from what I’ve seen thus far, it has a lot of promise. It acts like any other search engine but there are some tabs that a person can click on for news, local weather, sports, politics etc. Their claim is that there are supposedly no leanings like the left wing Google does and they’re not into censorship so just for that it might be a good thing., Let me know what ya’ll think.
I think I will have to chew on it a while. Left, right, middle commentary on the same news item? I like to get the other side's take but might take too much time.
I have been using Bing for several years now, ever since ken mentioned being able to get gift cards for Amazon . Pretty much, I like the search results better than when I tried using google search for the same thing. Bing rewards also has little tests and games that i do each morning to get more rewards points, and it is something easy to to and that I enjoy doing. On todays Bing Rewards, one of the options was to try their new AI chat search, and get an extra 100 points, so I decided to try it out. I asked if Dylan Mulvaney was actually the new spokesperson for Budweiser, and the chat bot said that he is indeed the new ambassador for Budweiser beer and they made the special celebration can just for him for showing everyone that he spent the year as a female. I asked which dogs are good for a senior, and then it gave me a list of dogs that they thought would work, and it was about the same list you would expect to get by asking any kind of online search.
I use a variety of things depending on what I’m trying to find. (e.g. ResultHunter, Metager, etc.). I avoid Google except for Google Scholar. It is an excellent, and free, academic search engine restricted to searching professional journals and publications dealing with law and the life sciences. It is the only source I use when searching for factual information about COVID. Some other search engines use Google algorithms apparently but not the way Google uses them.
The Internet Archive was taken down a few days ago and is still down, and, right now, Bing (Microsoft's search engine) is down. I don't know if it will stay down but right now, I am getting the following prompte when I try to access it. This page contains the following errors: error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.