google-gist-and-search

google-gist-and-search.txt

Alternatives:

https://search.brave.com/ - they maintain their own crawlers & index. It is surprisingly good 
(some people say that regular (non ai mode) google search is getting worse and worse)

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Link to google in AI mode, with the option to chat with a LLM.
Probably uses Gemini of various versions, the version can probably vary - according to task.

https://www.google.com/search?udm=50

(For some google accounts/regions they don't show the 'AI mode' button in the google search box, however adding this parameter gets you straight into it)

Wrote a whole composition/research on the subject...
https://github.com/MoserMichael/tips_on_using_google_ai_mode

Gemini seems to be stronger in technical/software questions, as compared to DeepSeek.
Downside: this page does not show past conversations, so you can't go back and dig deep on anything...
(but it is great, if you need to research a specific technical task!)

    - This works perfect as a StackOverflow replacement
    - Works great for questions: 'do you know a library that does xyz' and as documentation / sample finder
    - for solving specific problems this still can get into loops: do x, x doesn't work, do y, y doesn't work? do x.

Chat with DeepSeek when asking for details on literature, art, in short: life, the universe and everything... 
(DeepSeek was trained on a wider range of source materials/languages?)
(did DeepSeek get the better pre-training? I think they trained DeepSeek with more various language input. I think that is really making a difference.)
!! however DeepSeek will stop the conversation, if Chinese censoring policies don't agree with your discussion.

/... but all this is subject to change. Things change quickly, in these quarters.../

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While being logged into a google account:

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity - shows you searches/youtube visits/ai mode 

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=83 - a history of your past discussions with google ai mode

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=4 - gmail adds?

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=5 - google books

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=7 - developers - visits to developers.google.com

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=6 - chrome (doesn't show much)

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=8 - finance 

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=10 - google help

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=11 - image search

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=12 - maps!!!

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=15 - google play store

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=17 - song search

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=19 - google search! a history of your google queries !!!

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=20 - google shopping 

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=25 - video search (it shows stuff i viewed on vk and instagram. howso???)
                                                      they continue trading data with vk.com - despite sanctions/shmanctions.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=26 - a history of the stuff you viewed on youtube

https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_comments - a history of your youtube comments.

https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_likes  - your youtube like history

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=27 - which adds you visited? 

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=30 - google arts and culture (what's that?)

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=39 - google analytics? 

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=40 - google lens 

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=41 - google play console?

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=43 - google news? what I read on google news. wtf?

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=44 - google play

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=45 - google play games

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=46 - google play books

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=47 - google daydream

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=47 - google business profile

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=50 - google discover

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=55 - google TV

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=58 - google translate 

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=59 - travel

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=60 - google entertainment space

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=61 - google store

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=62 - wing marketplace

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=63 - socratic

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=64 - google guidebooks

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=67 - android TV

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=71 - google play store

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=74 - flights

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=75 - hotels

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=79 - learn about

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=83 - ai mode

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?product=90 - ai mode canvas

(funny thing: didn't find one for google n-gram product=5 for books doesn't cover ngram viewer...)

makes you feel a digital serf, or something like that. What an empire!
product=25 is scary, they trade with your data, back and forth...
... and they continue trading data with vk.com - despite sanctions/shmanctions.


BTW: Niantic made a fortune out of user data, by aggregating user movement data and building a model of that.
... but they anonymized the data, because GDPR doesn't cover anonymized data.
(also the app has access to the camera, while catching a pokemon - another source of data.)

... they offer you some free service, and you acquire data for them in exchange (which is worth more, when aggregated)
That's how we do business these days ...

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https://gist.github.com/sundowndev/283efaddbcf896ab405488330d1bbc06

It's 2026 - some of the old google search operators still work - if you string them together with &

```
Shabbat & filetype:pdf & (before:2024-01-01 after:2023-01-01)
```

Fun fact: I pretty soon got a captcha warning for 'unusual traffic', after playing with them...
So they kind of work, but you get blocked if you use them too much...