David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.org
Sep 23, 2026, 4:09 PMThe Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
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Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.onlineSep 23, 2026, 4:14 PM@davidrevoy I love it! :BlobhajHeart:
Stefan Baur 8 * 💉farbenstau@infosec.exchangeSep 23, 2026, 4:30 PM@NatureMC @davidrevoy And especially her look in panel No. 2 - so lovely!
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 4:31 PM
@farbenstau @NatureMC Thank you!
Pixel Dunnhacknorris@mstdn.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:17 PM@davidrevoy @wikipedia FTW!
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 4:19 PM
@hacknorris @wikipedia I agree :) Btw, I wonder what parody name (and metaphor) in a fantasy setting I could give to Wikipedia... I'm open to ideas!
- Pixel Dunnhacknorris@mstdn.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:20 PM
@davidrevoy maybe magicpedia?
Phil Höferphoefer@suma-ev.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:29 PM@davidrevoy Wikiwizardry
Nasher 🦓nasher@piaille.frSep 23, 2026, 4:29 PM@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia Ookpedia would add a Discworld reference 😁
Johnny Thanjohnnythan@tuebingen.networkSep 23, 2026, 4:38 PMWitchipedia
Witch-Imp-edia
It is a book with a lot of loose papers in it. Everyone can add a paper. Every day at the same time all bookkeeping witches say a spell at the same time. This spell synchronizes all contents in all the witchipedia books.
Everyone who has a book is fighting off the red parrots, and in any time off they check all new entries and all changed entries in a coordinated process to filter out the slop. To coordinate they ...
René Seindalseindal@mastodon.unoSep 23, 2026, 4:41 PMPickyweedia
JayWhiteCatTamer@mastodon.onlineSep 23, 2026, 5:16 PM@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia Scrollwheel; it’s a huge scroll that anyone can add to, and it gets un/rolled to the point you want with the help of a captive demon running on an attached treadmill (doomscrolling, anyone?).
Could be that this for every different page instead of the whole thing, so you can set up a joke where some demons are sleepy and slothful and some demons are incredibly overworked from dealing with edit wars.
Zekovski 🎃Zekovski@pouet.chapril.orgSep 23, 2026, 5:42 PM@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia
The cave where everyone's speach gets recorded in echo and can get heard again.
Sorry I got carried away.
Jakob KrakelJakob_Krakel@dresden.networkSep 23, 2026, 6:16 PM
Solithasolitha@mastodon.socialSep 23, 2026, 6:35 PM@davidrevoy Maybe Wiccapedia, or WiccaMedia. Or WikiGrimoire, WickedGrimoire, but it starts drifting into something unrecognizable.
Miss Megaphonmegaphon@mastodon.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:46 PMThe Collective? The Swarm? The Hive?
"Let's ask the hive."
It should consist of many entities. Ants, fairies, bodiless hands, swifts, mushrooms, a castle full of weird people – could be anything.
And they should be constantly bickering among themselves while also being very thorough, helpful and intelligent – and super smug about it! :D
Infrapink (he/his/him)Infrapink@mastodon.ieSep 24, 2026, 1:27 AM@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia
Witchipedia!
Florian Schmidtschmidt_fu@mstdn.socialSep 24, 2026, 4:45 AM@davidrevoy
The Book of All Knowledge?
@hacknorris @wikipedia- Stefan Rother-Stübsrotherstuebs@foojay.socialSep 24, 2026, 7:34 AM
@davidrevoy
WWTPD - What Would Terry Pratchett do?
@hacknorris @wikipedia - David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 24, 2026, 10:46 AM
@rotherstuebs @hacknorris @wikipedia Exactly, that's a question I often ask myself while writing my scenarios. The GOAT.
uisuis@pone.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:20 PM@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia Grimoire of Grimoires, duh. Grimoires reference grimoire, maybe.
Sep 23, 2026, 4:23 PM@davidrevoy I love this so much. Pepper and her obsession with Ring of Fire.
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 4:25 PM
@darkpixel Thank you!
But this one is another character than Pepper from Pepper&Carrot, it's "Cepper", a gothic sorceress (I know, they sort of look alike, the fault of my limited art style , hehe, so no problem for mixing them!).
Sep 23, 2026, 4:24 PM@davidrevoy I say we bring back Web Rings.
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 4:27 PM
@jordan 👏 Bravo! Good one.
(also, good idea. I never really was a user of them, but I really liked the "other blog recommended" on the old blogs; sometime, you could browse deep in the web jumping from blog to blog this way) 
Luna Lacteajackemled@furry.engineerSep 23, 2026, 7:51 PM@davidrevoy @jordan We'll need a Web Ring of Fire spell.
Sep 23, 2026, 5:02 PM@jordan @davidrevoy some people are doing that! https://human-made.site/
- BlueStaggo :drgn_comfy_happy:bluestaggo@wetdry.worldSep 23, 2026, 4:26 PM
@davidrevoy To be honest, I've become a subject to this :P
Sometimes when I search up a question in a search engine it gives me results for the totally wrong question and and when I try to search up problems I'm having with Blender I mostly get old posts which are irrelevant to the latest version of Blender soooo yeeeah sometimes I just have to use AI to get what I want because there aren't any good search engines out there that I know of. It sucks that I have to do that but it's kinda necessary. I still prioritise search engine use though because search engines aren't completely borked. - David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 4:30 PM
@bluestaggo I understand, and I collect the same feedback around me; that's why I wrote this one.
And also, I do a story arc right now where Cepper the gothic sorceress don't have a Avian Intelligence Parrot anymore (since the last episode) and now, I'm a bit exploring "her VS the system" with the evolution that are all here to push users to use AI. 
四yon@sakurajima.moeSep 23, 2026, 4:32 PM@davidrevoy Magic underwear :)
Ygorygor@floss.socialSep 23, 2026, 4:34 PM@davidrevoy I guess Saffron found a couple of those tomes as well.
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 4:35 PM
@ygor 🤣 haha, nice. Or she wrote some of them 🔥
QuasiQuasiTemporal@wandering.shopSep 23, 2026, 4:41 PM@davidrevoy For whatever reason, "Spicy Onion Ring Recipes" as a connection is the funniest of the bunch for me. 10/10, no notes, kudos. Just wait until she goes looking for a book itself, only to find the local copy was mulched to feed the algorithms. (Also, sorry that you have to keep doing the paint thing to prove that you're not an AI, yeesh.)
Sep 23, 2026, 4:41 PM
ZeldaZelda@m.ai6yr.orgSep 23, 2026, 4:54 PMI stopped using Google years ago, and I did not replace it with Bing either. Nor did I trust DuckDuckGo since it is in America.
Qwant — France, Europe
https://www.qwant.comEcosia — Germany, Europe
https://www.ecosia.orgMojeek — England, Europe
https://www.mojeek.comSwisscows — Switzerland, Europe
https://swisscows.comNaver — South Korea, Asia
https://www.naver.com
erisregerisreg@mastodon.socialSep 23, 2026, 5:07 PM@davidrevoy
yeah, the ol, mad(ison) ave. methods,
Sep 23, 2026, 5:39 PM@davidrevoy ok im quite tempted to call my search engine "Gooblin" now
NullDottNullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.placeSep 23, 2026, 5:42 PM@davidrevoy I hate this timeline...
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 8:08 PM
@NullTheFool Same... 🤝
WorldTravelerAll7WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.worldSep 23, 2026, 6:09 PM@davidrevoy so good!💙💯
Sep 23, 2026, 6:26 PM@davidrevoy
Just as well Wotan didn't have that problem at the end of "Die Walküre", eh?
Sep 23, 2026, 6:30 PM@davidrevoy this is incorrect. search results got worse befor ai- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 8:07 PM
@condret You are right. It's a caricature here, but also when everything went full AI it went downhill : summary, AI "for you" recommendation based on your profiling, more slop entries unfiltered, etc...
an actual busrenardboy@mastodon.socialSep 23, 2026, 6:38 PM@davidrevoy *here kid, catch*
Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:isagalaev@mastodon.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:36 PM@davidrevoy don't know if it was a conscious choice, but I like the book title about fire-proof panties: it suggests that the machine knows personal details about the user (that she's likely to wear panties and not boxers) and pushes the ad on her even when the request had nothing to do with it.
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 7:53 PM
@isagalaev Thank you! Yes, a conscious choice; the "Top 5 Best Engagement Rings (For you)" is also a direct recommendation. ☺️
I had a lot of fun writing this part. To bad I had to limit to 6 results; I wrote probably more than 10 on my first draft.
KonqiKonqi@mastodon.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:47 PM@davidrevoy imagine an AD with that many pages... I think the biggest books are ADs 😆
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 7:50 PM
@Konqi Haha, true. Unconscious decision here; maybe the books have a secret box inside them for all the cookies of partners.
...and it makes me think now of this old episode https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/016.html :yay: Everything start to be connected!
- KonqiKonqi@mastodon.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:09 PM
@davidrevoy I like the cookie with the eye patch 😆
Ryuno-KiRyunoKi@layer8.spaceSep 24, 2026, 2:52 PMIs https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1099/keeper-of-forbidden-knowledge playing in the same universe?
Seth :ally_always:PhillyCodeHound@encryptr.netSep 23, 2026, 8:58 PM@davidrevoy Love your comics!
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 9:22 PM
@PhillyCodeHound :blobcatheart: Thank you!
- Sep 23, 2026, 9:21 PM
@davidrevoy may i recommend https://noai.duckduckgo.com ;)
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 9:24 PM
@simondev Nice. Thanks for the link. I had the classic DDG with AI turned off (+ublock origin and a AI blocklist), I'll check if this variant is better.
- Sep 23, 2026, 9:26 PM
@davidrevoy uhm I guess it's the same. But it is useful if you are using a public computer and want an address that has all ai turned off by default
xrvsxarvos@outerheaven.clubSep 23, 2026, 11:32 PM@davidrevoy @simondev can ublock remove search results that are slop? if so, can you share the list?
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 11:52 PM
@xarvos @simondev I'm not sure the ublock origin really filters the results, but I use this list: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/tree/main
- Sep 24, 2026, 2:00 PM
@davidrevoy @xarvos thanks!!! i didn't know
- Vincent SparksAVincentInSpace@furry.engineerSep 24, 2026, 7:39 AM
@davidrevoy @simondev Oh! If you haven't already, you should add uBlacklist. If you have an AI blocklist, uBlock Origin will stop you from being able to click the links, but uBlacklist will stop them from showing up in the search results at all.
Martoufmartouf@piaille.frSep 23, 2026, 9:28 PM@davidrevoy no vidéo in the first results ? ^^"
- David Revoydavidrevoy@framapiaf.orgSep 23, 2026, 9:40 PM
@martouf I forgot the video! You are right.