• TragicNotCuteEnglish
    108•11 months ago

    Stop using Google. You can’t change them, you have to leave.

        • Veraxus
          10•11 months ago

          It’s really good these days. Kagi is still the beat, but if you want free, DDG is the way to go.

          • @Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
            7•11 months ago

            I’ll have to give this kagi a shot I never heard of it! DDG just doesn’t ever seem give me what I want and I’ve been trying it forever. It’s like I’m always playing this cat and mouse game with the search engine and it just gives me alllllmost what I want but not quite.

            • @kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6•11 months ago

              It’s not free, but I find it worthwhile. I really hope Apple includes it as a default engine in the next update.

              Kagi doesn’t sell you shit, so if you use Google for that, you can’t get that replacement data:

        • @brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5•11 months ago

          Free Google (& other) proxy: SearXNG

          Further reading / Instances: Searx.space

          One good instance: SearXNG.site

          For basic searches (kinda a Bing reseller with disappointing results): DuckDuckGo

          Vote-with-your-wallet alternative: Kagi (who may have astroturfed or may have not, but great engine at $10/mo unlimited - have tried their free trial)

          Comments of mine RE: why everybody’s just reselling search ($1b+/yr to operate your own crawler): one and two

        • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          2•11 months ago

          works fine for me, and their implementation of AI (only letting it use wikipedia and maybe some select other sources) is pretty nice IMO, perfect for answering questions like “how many people live in X Y Z cities in total?”.

      • @bluewing@lemm.ee
        1•11 months ago

        You can also look into Ghostery private search also. I’ve been using it some and it appears to be at least as good as DDG. YMMV