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Let me be clear: this is about AI written content.

I’ve had a few submissions for inclusion of websites that have writing by AI Chatbots.  Some are experimental, testing AI efficiency with human editors and were plainly marked as such.  They may be worthy endeavors, however, I am not listing them in the Indieseek,xyz index.  If I can detect AI generated articles, stories and essays such sites will be rejected.

Indieseek has always been about helping people find interesting or useful websites written by other people, not the writings of machines.  Our goal is to help you navigate the human web, the smol web, the Indie web.  If you have built a website around AI written content then Indieseek is not the place to list it.  We are a human edited directory for a reason.  If you want to start your own little directory specializing in AI writing I suggest you do that, we list lots of resources on how to build your own directory.

Thanks for reading.

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This is really cool, Good Internet Magazine has published their first issue in both digital and print additions.

 

Good Internet is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation.

 

 

Publishing just a simple ezine is a lot of work, so publishing a polished print/digital full magazine is quite an accomplishment.  It’s quarterly, so there is more to come.  This is definitely worth checking out.

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Read: Microsoft to Sunset Bing Search APIs by August 11, 2025, Pushing Developers Toward Azure AI Integration | WPN

 

This is big news.  Lots of secondary search services like DuckDuckGo, Yahoo,  AOL, Ecosia and others use Bing as the backbone of their Web search.  It’s unclear if this negates any long term contracts those service might have individually with Bing but it sounds like shifting to Microsoft’s Azure AI will be costly for them.

Frankly, I think a lot of this is about Microsoft positioning Bing with the anticipated anti-trust breakup of Google by the courts.  Bing wants to gobble up as much market share to Bing directly as they can.

This will shake up the search engine market, which needs shaking up.  So it is a good thing.

Added 16 May 2025:

It would appear that the Bing customers with long term contracts will NOT be immediately affected until their contracts run out.  At best that buys them a few years.  So Duckduckgo, Yahoo and AOL will carry on for awhile until those contracts end.  That buys them some time.

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All you see today are lies, half-truths, political and corporate spin and made up facts.  But there are a number of reputable websites that diligently check what the rumors, stories and propaganda spewed out online.

Therefore, we’ve made a new Fact Check category with a whole bunch of fact checking websites for you to use.

Arm yourself with the truth in the dark days ahead.

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The Swiss metasearch engine eTools.ch is a web metasearch engine that searches 15 web search engines all at once.

 

The following 15 search engines are queried in parallel:

 

What I wanted to point out to you is over and above the usual search engines,  eTools also searches Marginalia, Mojeek, Stract and Wiby which combined help you find web pages from the small web (indie web) combined with the commercial pages favored by the big engines.  And it’s free.

eTools will give you a broad search but don’t expect elaborate privacy.

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Let’s get this straight from the start: I hate AI, LLM’s whatever they are called and I don’t use them.  They are not ready yet and are untrustworthy.  The big breathless news you hear is 90% hype and 10% truth.  The hype is there to sucker in VC bucks.

With that disclaimer out of the way, someday AI may be useful for running a categorized, human edited, directory like Indieseek.xyz.  There are lots of tasks AI will someday be able to do.

 

  1. Detect Dead Links:  it consumes a lot of time and is not fun.
  2. Detect Changed Website Subject:  Domains expire and spammers buy them up and turn them into gambling sites, etc.
  3. Sort Websites into Categories:
  4. Write Descriptions for Listings:  this is hard to do unless the editor is going to spend a lot of time.
  5. Write Keywords for listings:  if you use this.
  6. Greatly enhance the directories search function to use more than URL, title, description, keywords.  You could actually use some onpage data.
  7. Moving existing listings into new categories as they are created.

I’m sure there are other time consuming tasks AI could manage.  But just doing the above would let one human editor run a larger directory.

I would still have a human editor decide what listings go into the directory.  The “human edited” part really does matter and there are things that only a human would catch.

I don’t think directories will completely disappear, because 1. people like to make lists and 2. people like to collect, some collect links.  But with that said, I don’t see new, extensive directory scripts being written.  Most are over 15 years old and I doubt there is enough paying demand for somebody to incorporate AI into a directory script.  But one can dream.

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