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The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 2, 2026
Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo
Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don't Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For those not in the know, noai.duckduckgo.com is a subdomain of DuckDuckGo search which removes DuckDuckGo's new "AI" features. I wrote about how to add the "noai" version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine to Chromium-...
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taco 'bout it
taco 'bout itJun 26, 2026
breaking: ai slop infects additional ai slop
Remember that WKNA site that DuckDuckGo was citing to claim that Trump had died from rabies? It appears to be a pink slime publication masquerading as a real local outlet, filled with fake news content that itself strongly appears to be generated by AI — and it very much seems to be cribbing from the...
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The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJun 8, 2026
On Personal Search Engines
I read a blog post titled Personal Search Engines with interest (HT Steve Makofsky). The author, Jason J. Gullickson, describes building a prototype federated personal search engine seeded with domains from his RSS feed collection. I like the idea of a personal search engine and have had trying YaCy to that effect on my personal...
junitedpersonal search engine
Archivio Grafton9
Archivio Grafton9Apr 13, 2026
Che fare? (cit.)
Attività correnti e progetti per il futuro di Archivio Grafton9
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 16, 2025
Snip Snip
A new lawsuit by a major publishing conglomerate takes aim at Google’s AI summaries—and hints at the many ways that Google undermines its own mission by forcing unwanted features on its users.
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Henrique Dias
Henrique DiasJul 30, 2025
Giving DuckDuckGo Another Chance
A few days ago, I wrote about my quest for a better search engine. For the past few months, I had been using Kagi, but I have since canceled the subscription. As a consequence, I returned back to DuckDuckGo. However, I felt it wasn't able to satisfy my needs... but was I right?
browserssearch engines
Henrique Dias
Henrique DiasJul 26, 2025
Finding a Good Search Engine
From February up until now, I have been using a paid search engine, Kagi. Two weeks ago, I canceled my subscription to try giving DuckDuckGo - or maybe another search engine - a go. However, I still find the search results quite lacking!
browserssearch engines
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 25, 2025
One Extra Click
Google announces a plan to add yet another barrier to the ease of getting an ultra-simple Web search. Great.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 14, 2025
Could &udm=14 Break?
That popular single-serving site I built to work around Google’s AI snippets could, unfortunately, see an infusion of AI soon. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
udm14search
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 7, 2024
Let’s Bring Back Small Tools
Thoughts on the misadventure of udm14, or what I hope to gain from successfully reviving the single-serving site for a couple of weeks.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 17, 2024
Does One Line Fix Google?
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add \"udm=14\" to the search URL.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 31, 2024
Cache Clearing
Google appears to hide away an important feature from its search engine—an easily accessible cache of search results. (It’s still there, if you know where to look.)
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 4, 2022
The Technorati Generation
The search engine that kept up at the speed of blogging created a “search war” with Google. But eventually, the speed of blogging just wasn’t fast enough.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 25, 2020
FTP Fadeout
The beating heart of the early internet may have been FTP, or file transfer protocol. But after 50 years of mainstream use, its demise may be imminent.
file sharinginternet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 5, 2019
Jumping-Off Point
What the heck is a jumpstation, and why did it fade from internet nomenclature? It’s complicated, but the web’s first search engine is in there somewhere.
searchsearch engines
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetOct 2, 2018
Extreme Googling
It’s easy to forget given its size, but Google fundamentally changed our relationship with information. Two decades later, we’re still feeling the effects.
googlesearch engine optimization
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 23, 2018
No Thanks, Spammers
How search engine marketers are ruining what’s left of the open web through too aggressive automation. No, I won’t add your link to my old piece.
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