There are services that are actually free, those who don’t sell your data and still manage to stay afloat. I use a lot of these. I like the Freemium model, I like the fact that the community is paying for my use of a great service till I can stand on my own two feet. So, I was wondering if there were any services you used for...
I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don’t eat beef. It’s not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn’t raised very religious, I didn’t go to temple...
WordPress has published its latest transparency report which shows that it only takes action for a small fraction of the piracy takedown notices it receives. A whopping 86% don’t result in any removals. This high rejection rate is mostly the result of “careless” incomplete notices sent by takedown companies, the report...
The thing that strikes me about LLMs is that they have been created to chat. To converse. They’re partly influenced by Turing tests where the objective is to convince someone you’re human by keeping up a conversation. They weren’t designed to create meaningful content or factual content.
People still seem to want to use chat GPT to create something, and fix the accuracy as a second step. I say go back to the drawing board and create a tool that analyses statements and tries to create information based on trusted linked open data sources.
Sometimes when I use exact matches like “keyword1” “keyword2” I see results that contain some of the matches but not others. Is there a search engine that only shows results with all the exact matches exactly as they are written?
I search Google for “Music behind the scenes”. Because the first word is music(?) Google gives me four songs with some of the keywords, but not in phrase order. Then it gives me seven YouTube videos, then one website that actually contains the phrase, and in fact refers to the videos I’m looking for.
I presume this is because the videos aren’t monetised? Anyway precision score 11/30, and as for recall, even if I click on ‘videos’ the five of them that have the exact phrase in the title don’t appear at all.
This is my complaint. It ranks popular videos with the title words out of order, over videos with the words in phrase order when I’ve used quote marks as a command to only return results containing the phrase.
I also assume that for both Google and YouTube, content they want me to see is being ranked above content I choose. I am the product, not the customer, and to me that’s not acceptable in a search engine.
YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of...
Ah, the positive characteristics of people who are early adopters of new technology, and capable of navigating their way onto a system where signing up wasn’t trivial. Seems to be highly correlated with language skills like spelling, grammar and vocabulary. I recognise my privilege.
Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more leads. Seeing the numerous SEO gurus on LinkedIn and Twitter, one might think it's worth a shot to try this approach, hoping to strike gold when search...
Takeaway: “What’s the use of ranking high with content that doesn’t engage visitors? If they feel like a bot wrote the content, it defeats the purpose. If this is what it takes to rank on a search engine, then there’s something wrong with the search engine itself.”
The EPA decided its scientists were overstating the risks and gave Chevron the go-ahead to make the new boat fuel ingredient at its refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi....
Iceland declares state of emergency over volcanic eruption threat (www.theguardian.com)
Powerful earthquakes rock country’s southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, increasing likelihood of event
What are some lemmy communities I can spend large amounts of time scrolling in ?
I want communities free from negativity and i certainly wont go near any community that is run by bigots
To what extend are you grateful for free services?
There are services that are actually free, those who don’t sell your data and still manage to stay afloat. I use a lot of these. I like the Freemium model, I like the fact that the community is paying for my use of a great service till I can stand on my own two feet. So, I was wondering if there were any services you used for...
Atheists, is there anything religious that sticks with you to this day?
I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don’t eat beef. It’s not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn’t raised very religious, I didn’t go to temple...
Calls for Starbucks boycott grow amid aggressive union-busting activities (www.theguardian.com)
Wordpress Rejects 86% of All DMCA Takedown Notices (torrentfreak.com)
WordPress has published its latest transparency report which shows that it only takes action for a small fraction of the piracy takedown notices it receives. A whopping 86% don’t result in any removals. This high rejection rate is mostly the result of “careless” incomplete notices sent by takedown companies, the report...
AIs version of beautiful people will be based on plastic surgery versions of people who were once based on those born with good looks
We need [Gen AI] literacy like media literacy (jamesg.blog)
Thoughts from James who recently held a Gen AI literacy workshop for older teenagers....
What search engines really have exact match?
Sometimes when I use exact matches like “keyword1” “keyword2” I see results that contain some of the matches but not others. Is there a search engine that only shows results with all the exact matches exactly as they are written?
Why are YouTube comments so much different than any other comments made online
YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of...
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The SEO scam: 62,000 dollars later (tinloof.com)
Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more leads. Seeing the numerous SEO gurus on LinkedIn and Twitter, one might think it's worth a shot to try this approach, hoping to strike gold when search...
Shopping at Target
Stopped at Target to look for some shoes.
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)
Air pollution linked to a rise in antibiotic resistance that imperils human health (www.theguardian.com)
Science fair (lemmy.ninja)
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime (www.propublica.org)
The EPA decided its scientists were overstating the risks and gave Chevron the go-ahead to make the new boat fuel ingredient at its refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi....
lightning: "fuck this toilet in particular" (lemmy.world)
What's the "Joe Shmoe" of different cultures? Or the "John/Jane Smith"?
Explanations/etymology also appreciated!...
Thy all shalt beest ashamed of forgetting this meme (i.imgur.com)