What’s your opinion? Does google really “not work” anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it’s own way i feel…

  • any1th3r3 [he/him]
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    172 years ago

    Exactly, I’ve noticed this over the past few months, actual relevant results are being pushed much further down the stack.

    If you want to explore alternatives, I’ve been using SearXNG, a so-called “metasearch engine”, where you can get a combination of various search engine results, based on your preferences. It’s pretty good, when it works (it tends to get rate-limited fairly often… or at least some of its results / search engines do, which can get annoying).

    • Phoenix [she/they]
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      22 years ago

      Just to help me understand: Why is it that when I try the same search on different instances of this, I get very different search results?

      • any1th3r3 [he/him]
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        12 years ago

        This would depend on the search engines enabled and/or the default language/country set (if any) for that particular instance, you can find those in the settings of the instance itself (and enable/disable whichever you’re most interested in, as well as a few other relevant settings).