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Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I've mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with "site:reddit.com", but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well...?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks pretty good, and I wouldn't mind paying for search, but it seems really pricy. I've never counted how many searches I do, but it's definitely more than 10 a day. $10 a month seems like a lot for just search...

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Made me feel a little unwell at the beginning as well, but considering that the search is one of the main, key features I use daily, multiple times, it is totally worth it.

I pay for a search engine, but:

  • High quality search results
  • No ads
  • High customizability
  • No weird SEO optimized Website results which help me not at all and I lose hours in a year clicking them by accident
  • Did I mention no ads or sponsored content?