Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7

18 hours ago

I still search Google and other search engines from the command line. There is no "AI" garbage in the results. The way HN commenters refer to Google search in this thread, one might conclude it is not possible anymore to search the web without a popular browser running Javascript (which is a prerequisite for this "AI" stuff). That conclusion would be incorrect. It is still possible; I am still doing it every day.

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1vuio0pswjnm7  15 hours ago

This is how I do it

1. Make HTTP

2. Send HTTP via TCP

3. Perform text processing on the response body (I create own SERP instead of using Google's)

Personally, I use multiple programs, some I wrote myself in C, to perform these individual steps, connected by UNIX pipes and the shortest, simplest possible Bourne shell scripting

However there are countless ways to perform these steps in wide variety of programming languages; there is no need for UNIX or shell scripting, it is purely personal preference