Google has been getting worse and worse in my opinion. I am not a fan of their canned AI responses. And now ads have taken over so much. What is your favorite search engine. Are there any that work similarly to how google used to work?
11 sats \ 1 reply \ @mwaters 1h
I use a self-hosted SearxNG instance.
Other instances are available at https://searx.space/
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bee_Aye 49m
me too
duckduckgo if i have to
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 1h
depends on what i want to find: for fiat job tasks and image search for memes - straight to google.
brave and duckduckgo if i want a specific real-life question answered. with science articles it gets much more tricky, one has to use the brain first, come up with an approximate answer and then look for exactly the thing one wants to find, sometimes thru cited references at the end of the papers.
otherwise i browse the multitude of telegram channels on a daily basis in addition to skimming stacker news to see what peaks my interest. my open tabs count is very high.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @0371279ce5 2h
Yandex has always served me well.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h
I have never heard of that one either. Thanks for the suggestion.
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @ChrisS 3h
Kagi has worked well for me. It costs money but if the product is free you are the product. Duckduckgo is OK. Google has become unusable.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave OP 3h
Interesting. I didn't know there were paid options. I am all about paying for good services in order to not be the product.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 2h
#502409 Founder AMA
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h
They are on stacker! Now I am super intrigued.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 3h
This is a fun one to use from time to time: https://www.oldestsearch.com/
It attempts (fails a lot) to sort by oldest results first, best used with " " marks.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 3h
I use Brave as my standard and then if I can’t find what I’m looking for all pivot to Google but try to avoid it like the plague lol
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 3h
That's what I have been doing. Is brave their own search engine? I use their browser but I wasn't sure how they search..
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