Hacker News with Generative AI: Search Engines

Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript (ycombinator.com)
Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript
Google, Search Engines, Privacy, Web Browsers, JavaScript
92 points by superkuh 2 days ago | 79 comments
Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results (github.com/popcar2)
This is a blocklist that intends to remove garbage websites from search results, such as AI-generated articles, low-effort spam sites, and thinly-veiled advertisements acting as information.
Web Development, Spam Filtering, Search Engines, Information Quality, Content Moderation
217 points by popcar2 4 days ago | 83 comments
Vanished from Google/Bing/LinkedIn: a rebuttal of an anti-net neutrality paper (blogspot.com)
What if something can't be found through Google Search? Does it still exist? That question I have to ask myself when I found that a blogpost I wrote two years ago can't be found anymore through either Google or Bing, though it is still listed on Brave. A LinkedIn post where I refer to the blogpost was also made inaccessible, even though Bing can still find that it exists and it can be partially read when browsing anonymously.
Search Engines, Censorship, Net Neutrality
107 points by vldr 5 days ago | 30 comments
IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine (ircdriven.com)
IRC Driven is a modern IRC indexing site and search engine. Originally started in 2006, inspired by the now defunct SearchIRC, and after several rewrites we are now evolving into a social media platform for IRC.
IRC, Search Engines, Social Media
95 points by pabs3 5 days ago | 81 comments
Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records (birls.org)
Show HN, Search Engines, FOIA, Veterans, Government Records
117 points by Asparagirl 5 days ago | 72 comments
A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024) (flatfootfox.com)
There’s a new web search in town. No, it’s not a re-skin of Bing results. No, it’s not an AI powered tool chasing this particular moment of Large Language Model (LLM) hype. Kagi is an honest to goodness general purpose search engine with a simple proposal:
Search Engines, Web Browsers, Technology, Review
118 points by Apocryphon 8 days ago | 158 comments
Datadog acquires Quickwit (datadoghq.com)
To help our customers meet these requirements without sacrificing visibility or introducing multiple logging tools, we are pleased to announce that Quickwit—a popular open source distributed search engine—is joining Datadog.
Acquisitions, Open Source, Search Engines, Monitoring, Software
17 points by louis-paul 8 days ago | 2 comments
When you search for ‚Google' on Bing, Bing masquerades as Google (daringfireball.net)
Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google.
Search Engines, Microsoft, Google, Competition
21 points by ch_sm 9 days ago | 4 comments
Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers (pcworld.com)
Microsoft would really, really, really like you to use Bing, its self-branded search engine that competes against Google’s monopoly. Not only is it hardwired into much of Windows and other Microsoft products like the Edge browser, it also employs a lot of sneaky visual tricks to steer you away from Google itself. But the company’s latest trick is more, well, tricky — in fact, it’s just straight-up Google camouflage.
Search Engines, Microsoft, Google, User Interface, Competitive Strategy
302 points by ungut 10 days ago | 215 comments
AI means the end of internet search as we've known it (technologyreview.com)
Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence, Search Engines, Internet, Technology
40 points by gnabgib 10 days ago | 58 comments
Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com (windowslatest.com)
Microsoft seems to have rolled out a pretty interesting yet controversial change that spoofs Google.com UI when you try to find Google when using Bing.com.
Search Engines, User Interface, Microsoft Bing, Google
18 points by xnx 12 days ago | 3 comments
Bing is trying to trick people into thinking they're using Google (9to5google.com)
A sneaky new behavior that Microsoft has implemented in Bing attempts to hide the fact that people are using Bing whenever they try to get to Google.
Search Engines, Microsoft, Google, Competition
11 points by xnx 12 days ago | 0 comments
Did a quick search about John Wick 5.This is the abysmal state of Google in 2025 (reddit.com)
Just watched John Wick 4, did a quick search to see if they are making a 5th one. This is the abysmal state of Google and the internet as we go into 2025.
Search Engines, Movies, Internet, Technology
13 points by RicoElectrico 13 days ago | 2 comments
Perplexity got ads (twitter.com)
Perplexity, Artificial Intelligence, Search Engines, Advertising
237 points by amrrs 14 days ago | 361 comments
DiscoverGov – search across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases (discover.gpo.gov)
Government Data, Search Engines, U.S. Government
25 points by bryanrasmussen 14 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Where can I find human-generated content now that I've quit Reddit? (ycombinator.com)
I am so used to appending 'reddit' to the end of every Google search that I am now at a loss as to where I can find human content that isn't SEO optimised (and bullshit).
Human-Generated Content, Online Communities, Search Engines
13 points by rizs12 15 days ago | 12 comments
Show HN: A search engine that values depth over popularity (graphthem.com)
A search engine that values depth over popularity
Search Engines, Algorithms, Web Development
13 points by vignesh_warar 19 days ago | 5 comments
Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s (chuckwnelson.com)
You know when you go on a picnic, sometimes there's a fly that decides to join you.
Google, OpenAI, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism
470 points by chuckwnelson 20 days ago | 485 comments
Reverse Video Search (mixpeek.com)
Reverse video search allows us to use a video clip as an input for a query against videos that have been indexed in a vector store.
Search Engines, Computer Vision
24 points by Beefin 21 days ago | 10 comments
Search ArXiv Fluidly (searchthearxiv.com)
Insert an arXiv link to find similar papers or use natural language to describe what you are looking for.
Research, Academic, AI, Search Engines
51 points by Exorust 22 days ago | 15 comments
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998) (infolab.stanford.edu)
The web creates new challenges for information retrieval. The amount of information on the web is growing rapidly, as well as the number of new users inexperienced in the art of web research.
Search Engines, Information Retrieval, Web Development, Computer Science
16 points by gone35 22 days ago | 1 comments
ChatGPT search vs. Google: A deep dive analysis of 62 queries (searchengineland.com)
The emergence of ChatGPT search has led to many questions about the quality of the overall results compared to Google.
ChatGPT, Search Engines, Google, Artificial Intelligence, Comparison
6 points by zdw 22 days ago | 0 comments
Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine (macrumors.com)
Apple's senior vice president of services Eddy Cue has explained why the iPhone maker does not plan to create a search engine like Google.
Apple, Search Engines, Technology, Competition, Business
15 points by Tomte 24 days ago | 0 comments
Co-Adapting Human Interfaces and LMs (jessylin.com)
With the explosion of computer use agents like Claude Computer Use and search wars between Perplexity, SearchGPT, and Gemini — it seems inevitable that AI will change the way we access information.
User Interfaces, AI, Search Engines
46 points by anishathalye 27 days ago | 4 comments
Perplexity's value triples to $9B in latest funding round for AI search engine (ft.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Funding, Search Engines, Business
5 points by belter 27 days ago | 3 comments
Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search (semking.com)
If you work in the SEO industry, you may be blinded by the lights. The noise can be deafening. You may trust most of Google’s official statements. Many in the search community blindly believe Google but I’m glad not everyone does.
Search Engines, SEO, Google, Trust
80 points by semking 31 days ago | 134 comments
ChatGPT's AI search engine is rolling out to everyone (theverge.com)
ChatGPT’s AI search engine is rolling out to all users starting today.
Generative AI, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
5 points by Brajeshwar 32 days ago | 0 comments
Opinion: Perplexity offers several advantages over Google as a search engine (theregister.com)
Search Engines, Opinion, Google, Perplexity
36 points by rntn 33 days ago | 46 comments
Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice (theregister.com)
Reddit's internal search engine is often criticized as one of the site's weakest features but the platform claims AI integration will make it "faster, smarter, and more relevant."
Reddit, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
16 points by pseudolus 39 days ago | 3 comments
Sundar Pichai says Google Search will 'change profoundly' in 2025 (theverge.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company’s search engine will “change profoundly” in 2025.
Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Predictions
7 points by kaycebasques 42 days ago | 0 comments