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Is there any good, free search engine left? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don't respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I'm not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The other suggestions aren't suggestions at all. They are obsoleted by searx.space

DDG ... obsolete

startpage.com ... obsolete

Browsers have default search engines. Curse everytime, DDG is accidentally queried.

DDG is a curse word!

Any centralized site, with privacy claims, is treated as lying thru their teeth. Front run future news.