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FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

What’s the best alternative, in your opinion? I’ve tried Bing and DuckDuckGo, but both showed me worse results for my particular searches.

I just want classic Google Search back, before everything got turned to shit. But I fear that doesn’t really exist since there’s such an economic incentive behind how search engines rank and show results.

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Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If you can afford to spend 10 bucks a month for a search engine, Kagi is pretty sleek. No ads, you can block/prioritize websites, good bangs, convinient CSS field for easy modding.

It does AI stuff too, but it’s optional as the other non-standard search output fields.

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Kr4u7@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Searxng - any of the instances hosted in Germany Brave search - but only search

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mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Google without AI udm14.org

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thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’ve been using a combination of brave and ddg. Work with the filtering

I was an SEO for 20+. Years. Google is dying as far as search relevancy. It’s trying to transition to a new paradigm that prioritizes payment surrounding data than ads. Much more money in the data angle, and ads as we know them will be dying soon, replaced with more insipid product placements.

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- FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’ll check out Brave, it’s been mentioned a few times.
  
  I don’t mind companies making a dime, but now it’s really devolved in bad results that are profit-driven.
  
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