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?
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @mwaters 24 Oct 2024
I use a self-hosted SearxNG instance.
Other instances are available at https://searx.space/
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @BeeAye 24 Oct 2024
me too
duckduckgo if i have to
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 24 Oct 2024
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 \ 2 replies \ @libertas 24 Oct 2024
Yandex has always served me well.
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 24 Oct 2024
Yeah, I wrote a post on Yandex:
How to search online for items that are censored? An experiment...
Always use Yandex for things that might be politically sensitive.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 24 Oct 2024
I have never heard of that one either. Thanks for the suggestion.
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11 sats \ 3 replies \ @ChrisS 24 Oct 2024
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 24 Oct 2024
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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12 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 24 Oct 2024
#502409 Founder AMA
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 24 Oct 2024
They are on stacker! Now I am super intrigued.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 24 Oct 2024
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 \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 24 Oct 2024
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 \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 24 Oct 2024
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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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptoshalix 24 Oct 2024
Another one using Brave here.
Brave browser and Brave search engine.
This is my main and only browser, both on phone and computer.
It requires some setup to remove the BAT extension and some privacy settings, but it's a one-time thing.
To date, I haven't had to use another search engine, and I've found everything I wanted.
Browser: https://brave.com
Search engine: https://search.brave.com
By default, the search engine is set to Brave.
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