• OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      What’s a better alternative? Have tried all major ones except paid ones and I always return to Google. Maybe for basic stuff Duck Duck Go / Bing is fine, but once you start searching for local / non-English stuff, results were underwhelming.

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        3 months ago

        I’ve been using kagi for a few months (6 according to my bank). It is paid. It is great. It’s so good I’ve switched my wife to it since Google was giving her a lot of garbage (she’s a non techie) and she says “it feels like Google used to be. The answers are what I was looking for. I forgot I was using Kagi”

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        3 months ago

        I bought a Kagi subscription within hours of finding the site. They’ll eventually enshittify but they’re very good for now.

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        3 months ago

        https://searx.space/

        My current favorite search engine. Just pick one that’s running out of your country or close to it. Hope it works as well for you as it does for me.

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        3 months ago

        I want the answer to be a federated system, like YaCy. Which I tried to set up, and its results make AltaVista look good. Maybe good enough for a corporate intranet, but not the internet at large.