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The web we want isn't free, but it's worth paying for.

When you choose Kagi, you're not just buying a service. You're investing in a better, more ethical web. One where your privacy matters, your time is valued, and your search results serve you - not advertisers.

“The problem is whether you create content to sell ads, sell subscriptions, or just to know that people value what you've created, an AI-driven web doesn't reward content creators the way that the old search-driven web did. And that means the deal that Google made to take content in exchange for sending you traffic just doesn't make sense anymore.”

— Matthew Prince, Cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com/content-in

The Cloudflare Blog · Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

After realizing that the vast majority of searches I make on my phone are either

1) for a Wikipedia article or
2) for a website whose URL I can't remember, which has a Wikipedia article with a link to the website

I finally realized that I needed to just make Wikipedia my default search engine. This has already greatly reduced the amount of stress I experience sifting through LLM SEO spam and AI-generated nonsense.

Nice, DuckDuckGo now has noai.duckduckgo.com/ so you can entirely avoid their AI Search even when you regularly delete cookies.

AI "search" not existing would be my preference, but functional opt-out is a solid second given current state of tech.

(It's possible it's not new, but I only saw it today when I had to disable it again and the site mentioned it.)

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Twitter Hashtags and QR Codes

shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/06/twitt

I spotted this poster today, encouraging people to search for the Twitter hashtag "#Transformers".

Wouldn't it make sense to use a QR code as well? That way people could quickly scan, and be taken straight to the discussion, rather than have to fire up Twitter and do a manual search.

As it happens, it's slightly tricky to make a QR code which searches for a Twitter hashtag.

There are two things to note:

  1. Twitter's search URLs are annoyingly different from every other search URL on the planet.
  2. You will need to take care of URL Encoding for special characters.

Building The Search Query

A typical Twitter search URL is

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/search/

With the query at the end, so a search for "Transformers" would be

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/search/Transformers

Encoding Correctly

Hash symbols (#) need to be URL Encoded. In this case, the hash becomes "%23"

https://mobile.twitter.com/%23!/search/%23Transformers

However, there is a "gotcha". Because of the... special... way Twitter constructs its search URLs, we have to URL Encode the percentage sign! So, the "%" becomes "%25".

So, our final URL becomes

https://mobile.twitter.com/%25%23!/search/%2523Transformers

Finally, if you want to use something like Google Charts to create your QR codes, you'll need the URL Encode all of the : / # ! and other special characters.

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chl=   https%3A%2F%2Fmobile.twitter.com%2F%23%21%2Fsearch%2F%2523Transformers

The Final Result

We end up with a QR code which can be scanned to take the user directly to the hashtag they are searching for,

Terence Eden’s Blog · Twitter Hashtags and QR Codes
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