@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoRemember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit?message-square80fedilinkarrow-up1405arrow-down117file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•1 year agoGoogle have really enshittified their services, to the point where I’ve seriously thought about using Bing as my search engine instead.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘuplinkfedilinkEnglish23•edit-21 year agoI use duck duck go. IIRC, it’s based on bing. It’s better. I also use perplexity though. It’s very useful.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoCheck out Ecosia. It’s the same thing, but your searches plant trees in a responsible manner.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘuplinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI have. Duck duck is more reliable. Will try again tho. I like trees.
minus-squareGaia [She/Her]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoI struggle to find very obvious things when using ddg, unfortunately Feels bad
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIn my use case, my privacy is already compromised from using mainstream tech, also cached pages are kinda a big deal.
minus-squareɔiƚoxɘuplinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoOh indeed! I use the web archives addon for Firefox. Love that guy. 1 click and you get access to 8 different places to view the current page on.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoKagi is tempting, and for how much I use search I may want to genuinely use it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYeah, I’ve found their search results to be great. Additionally though, their manifesto really resonates with me. I’m happy to support them.
Google have really enshittified their services, to the point where I’ve seriously thought about using Bing as my search engine instead.
I use duck duck go. IIRC, it’s based on bing. It’s better.
I also use perplexity though. It’s very useful.
Check out Ecosia. It’s the same thing, but your searches plant trees in a responsible manner.
I have. Duck duck is more reliable.
Will try again tho. I like trees.
I struggle to find very obvious things when using ddg, unfortunately
Feels bad
In my use case, my privacy is already compromised from using mainstream tech, also cached pages are kinda a big deal.
Oh indeed!
I use the web archives addon for Firefox. Love that guy. 1 click and you get access to 8 different places to view the current page on.
I already switched
Kagi. Not free, but the best.
Kagi is tempting, and for how much I use search I may want to genuinely use it.
Yeah, I’ve found their search results to be great. Additionally though, their manifesto really resonates with me. I’m happy to support them.