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AI is just another version of google, which is doing the same thing. The question is how to access that which has been intentionally exclued, if not altogether scrubbed. There must be pristine search engines.

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Grok also seems to be more “honest”. I was able to get it to read the C19early.com database and give me answers based on it… although, unfortunately, the answers were mostly incorrect. But I would say that this is more likely an issue of kinks that need to be worked out, rather than overt censorship.

But I think it remains to be seen whether or not Elon will provide a truly accuracy-based engine, without tweaking it to serve a different purpose as well.

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I wanted to try Grok, but it insisted that I install yet another app.

Apps are insidious, so I refused.

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I’ve been using the Brave browser and its search engine for the last few years, and it’s come a long way. It’s attached to BAT crypto-environment, and has a lot of user friendly tools. There are still glitches here and there, but over the past ~6 months or so I’ve noticed that its search algorithms have been returning very good results, and it reliably lists sites that Google, Bing, and Duck Duck Go censor or suppress.

For certain things I still have to go to google to find quickly… but Brave is definitely becoming a big player in the search engine field, and I suggest giving it a shot!

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Thanks for this. I think you're the second to mention this. I've been using gibiru search engine. I think I tested brave and didn't find it as good as gibiru, but I'll give it another go.

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