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We all need to stop using this as our default search engine
What do you suggest? Because even Mozilla uses Google for its search.
Duck duck?
Which is just bing with a few extra editorial changes that aren't really transparent.
What do you use?
Only recently started using searngx. I would love to see more search engines implement their own indexing and ranking, instead of relying on other engines.
But I am aware that making a good search engine is hard. Even with all their flaws, google and Bing still have the best results, which is why most other engines rely on their results.
I also wanted to mention that DDG doesn't really say what editorial changes they make to the results. I would like to see more transparency.
Kagi... It's so good you forget Google.
And what do you mean "even mozilla"... There are money deals between these Google and mozilla. Google pays mozilla a lot of money to set Google as default search.
It is so good that when I use Google on someone else's computer, I'm surprised at how bad Google has become.
It's a paid service, so it'd be a bad default for a web browser. Not saying it's a bad search engine; saying that it's a bad search engine default for the every day folk who just installed a web browser.
I agree. I would recommend duckduckgo for a free search engine.
Hopefully they'll do a freemium service at some point like Proton does
https://searx.neocities.org/
Right click the address bar to add it to your search bar
I’ve been using Searx for a couple of weeks now. It seems to be working well.
As the default as it pays for web development. You can change this to DuckDuckGo in settings and I strongly recommend that you do.
I really like startpage, but I'm pretty sure it's just Google with some tweaks
If you don't mind having to occasionally refresh the page due to search engine timeout, a public Searxng metasearch engine. I use one just to straight up bypass having to go to any specific search engine. Also allows me to see results from both gøøg|e and b*ng without having to go to either.
Thanks sound interesting.
https://searx.space/ has a listing with responsetime for the sites.
i use www.gruble.de, has worked without issue for the last month or so.
Kagi.
Bruh, it asks for login. No thanks.
startpage, had the Best results for me in the last couple of months, much better then google. and the anonymous view feature is handy and neat
I'm using qwant as my default now. It does well for most searches, but for map related things I still use google.
Why don’t you google it? /s
Lol absolutely it's the only way.
i'm using a mix of ddg startpage and occasionally yandex, and its been good so far.
if you have more good suggestions drop em here.
Well since google is the whale, anything but google would work to reduce their market power.
I know Lemmy likes to hate on AI, but my default search engine is http://perplexity.ai and it’s great
According to Perplexity, that's just Google Search with some OpenAI sprinkled on top... So yeah, I'm gonna hate on it lol.
What I like about it is that it's trained on lots of different sources (including, but not limited to Google, and Bing search results). It then strips out the ads, SEO blog spam, and other nonsense and tries to return the most relevant info for my query. It is leagues better than pure Google. Also, it uses its own LLM unrelated to OpenAI.
A bit unfortunate that I got downvoted for having an opinion and sharing it.
You are part of the problem