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Nostalgia Nerd delivers a great exploration of web search #history, inc. the battle of the #search engines in the late 1990s. A lovely precis of the era and all its quircks. Both nostalgic and nerdy in equal measure, so does what is says on the tin! 😀

"I look at the glory days of search, when AltaVista, Lycos, Excite!, Ask Jeeves, DogPile, InfoSeek and MSN were just some of the choices available. Such exciting times."

'Before Google'
youtu.be/812YkCrmksk?si=zipqGp #WebHistory #WebSearch

Just created a @kagihq Feedback thread on crypto payment options.

kagifeedback.org/d/6733-more-c

Currently they use only Stripe billing, Paypal and Opennode's Bitcoin payment gate.

So if you have Ethereum, Monero or any other popular coin, then you're out of luck.

So, please vote if you also want more crypto payment options for privacy-oriented search engine.

P.S. I think this becomes even more relevant since they've recently announced their Privacy Pass.

kagifeedback.orgMore crypto payment options - Kagi Feedbackd like to file a request for more cryptocurrency payment options. But I think other users can add some more popular o...
#vote#feedback#log

I'm also experimenting with using Pagefind to provide search for my static site using client-side Javascript. It currently analyzes 10934 files and indexes 8183 pages (87272 words) in 40 seconds. The data is 125MB, but a search for, say, "sketchnote" transfers only 280KB, so that's pretty good. I think I'm adding the date properly and I know I can set that as the default sort, but I haven't yet figured out how to make it possible for people to sort by either relevance or date as they want. I also want to eventually format the search results to include the date. Maybe Building a Pagefind UI – dee.underscore.world will be useful. #pagefind #ssg #search

Pagefind — Static low-bandwidth search at scalePagefind | Pagefind — Static low-bandwidth search at scalePagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.

[Veille] ESBCO, acteur+++ du #search & #discovery dans le milieu académique, lance ses options #AI powered; 1 de + à tenter de capter les usage(r)s via la mine d'or du texte intégral des publis scientifiques (celui encore derrière les paywalls qui peut permettre de faire la différence via les RAGs vis à vis des concurrents ! #moneymoneymoney )=> "EBSCO launches new AI features" researchinformation.info/news/
#jarvislike #tools #digitalscholarship #bibliographicdatabase #libraries #bibliothèques #ESR

Research InformationEBSCO launches new AI features - Research InformationNew capabilities are part of company's "ongoing commitment to enhancing the researcher journey and user experience"

Bing is testing a new menu item called "Search". It is located next to the "Copilot" item and provides a more or less simple results page made by AI.

One interesting feature is "See reasoning": it provides a definition, some specific web searches and linked sources for further reading.

Is this Bing's version of the future of search? 🧐