If someone had said to me
"PJ, in 2023, AskJeeves style search engines will make a roaring comeback because human-curated searches will just be so much better and accurate than Google."
I'd have questioned your intellect and possibly your hygiene.
And yet here we are.
@Homebrewandhacking Is anyone who thinks still using Google Search? Just awful AI-promoted nonsense. Brave Search is not too awful, and DuckDuckGo is tolerable. Still hunting for a really good reliable one.
I use DuckDuckGo. The #Brave chap endorses various kinds of unpalatable nonsense.
Quite frankly you can't throw a rock in computing without hitting someone with dreadful views that they believe they arrived at ab initio but wildly, happily, reinforce the status quo and their position in it.
@Homebrewandhacking Sure. Currently I still use the Brave browser on laptop and phone, obvs with the ads and telemetry turned right off. Sooner or later I'll likely migrate to Firefox, but it's too ugly right now. There is however the Garuda version (DrgnFire or something?) which looks promising, but I doubt it'll be available for my phone...
Ah that's grand. You know yourself best.
@Homebrewandhacking Ah, now yer getting metaphysical and stuff. "I knows what I likes" though