Don’t understand this.
There isn’t an htpc mode on ubuntu, and you’re restricting results from australia. It seems normal that the results are irrelevant.
Maybe you’re searching for this, to install over vanilla ubuntu: https://github.com/dudewheresmycode/TenFootGnome
I don’t think I’m understanding the problem. What are you trying to find? These are the exact results I’d expect to see with that query
SEO is a cancer
If you add “-best -awesome” or search on google you can get some real results, but I usually avoid google. You can also try searxng
Do these marks (- for exclusion, + for mandatory) still work on search engines? I thought they stopped entertaining them years ago, exactly because they don’t want the user to mess with SEO results. I know from personal experience that double quotes (to search for an exact expression) are ignored.
Not on Google. They work on kagi and I assume they do on DDG/searx etc
Ive found it to be inconsistent; used to not work on ddg /bing but worked today for me. Used to work on google but less so nowadays
Double quotes just get me flagged as a bot every single time on Startpage.
Startpage constantly bot flagged me, even just doing normal searches. Just a shitty detector on that one.
Unpopular opinion incoming: as much as i hate it… LLM is better than search engines for finding information. It’s not always correct but neither are web results.
It is more that these web pages are probably all LLM written, and so they poison the search results. Not so much LLM search results/helpers at the top of a results page.
Except that you probably have no idea when the LLM was trained, so its information can become outdated rather quickly.
Not sure what your hardware looks like but I set up a degoogled RPI running on linageos 22. Been running solid for about 6 months now. Definitely not a beginner project, took me a bit of work to get it up and running but hasn’t failed me yet!
