• @[email protected]
    40•13 days ago

    I haven’t used Google search in years, think I’ll survive.

    Because the line must go up in perpetuity I just bet we’ll hear about this ai crap spitting out product placement answers in a few years

      • @[email protected]
        15•13 days ago

        I use Kagi as my daily driver. If I have too choose a free search engine, I would use Qwant, Startpage or Ecosia.

        • Coelacanth
          9•13 days ago

          I’ve heard good things about Kagi but I don’t know that I want to pay for it. Is it a big upgrade on Ecosia?

          • @[email protected]
            12•13 days ago

            My motto is: If it’s free, you pay with your data. And I really have trust in Kagi.

            Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant, DDG doesn’t feel very different to me and they all are doing an okayish job. But everything’s better than google.

      • @[email protected]
        10•13 days ago

        I use kagi, it’s the closest thing to the old timey google before it sucked.

        I used ddg and searxng for a long time, but if you use them long enough you’ll find they’re not great at certain searches and I got tired of the hassle. Search engines are one of those things i just want to work and not fiddle with.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•13 days ago

        I’ve been using qwant for about a year now with good success but lately it’s started blocking me for not being human and despite successfully passing their human test. Not sure what’s up with that. Might have to switch to something else.

      • @[email protected]
        5•13 days ago

        Startpage has been decent for me. I find results and move on with life as a search engine should be.

        I accidentally used the googs on a system last week and holy hell was it awful. The results looked so weird and unhelpful and then I noticed the default SE on the browser and fixed it straight away.

  • @[email protected]
    9•13 days ago

    just add a swearword anywhere in your search and Google’s AI gets offended. i never thought the overt sanitisation of the internet would actually be helpful, but here we are

    me googling "is the sky blue" normally me googling "is the fucking sky blue" (no AI overview)

  • Matt
    3•12 days ago

    Just start running SearXNG in the background.