Default search engine: Wikipedia
#Default search engine: Wikipedia. I propose that Wikipedia is the most reasonable default search engine remaining as of this writing. Note that this is about a reasonable default. I am not claiming that Wikipedia is the best search engine. I switched my own default to Wikipedia a month ago and I’ve decided to keep it that way. Traditional search engines are becoming LLM frontends. Unfortunately this trend has infected even DuckDuckGo and the likes. Simple searches are contributing to significant carbon emissions. The non-LLM search results are also mostly SEO farm pages, and increasingly LLM generated slop parading as legit content. Most general searches can be answered very well by Wikipedia. I had to only slightly alter my search behavior. Instead of searching “sources of…
