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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] 33 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Posted this previously:

yes. use any of the following, in no particular order:

ecosia.org - A non-profit certified B corp that plants trees by serving ads in your search results. Bing search underneath.
duckduckgo.com - A privacy friendly search engine. Primarily sourced from Bing but mixes in a few other sources.
any SearXNG instance - A self-hostable search front-end to various search engines.
marginalia.nu - specifically 'random' - An independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think Searx is a good suggestion. Can be a bit slow to return results because it runs the search on a bunch of search engines and compiles the results, but that helps to make sure better stuff rises to the top.

[–] BigBootyBoy 2 points 1 month ago

Just tried it and it actually worked surprisingly well

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