Have you tried Ecosia?
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I want to avoid it but with google making sure that search results get worse and worse I’m in a bit of a pickle. Other search engines still feel lile they’re a bit behind though
Zacryon@feddit.org 7 months ago
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Isn’t ecosia just using google’s results?
Zacryon@feddit.org 5 months ago
As far as I know they are using Bing. They’ve started building their own search index last year in a partnership with Qwant.
Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Not OP. I’ve been using Ecosia for years and was glad they didn’t do the AI summary shit so far… But a few days ago I got an AI summary on Ecosia as well. I fear they’re also hopping on this train and in that case I’ll look for another search engine.
Zacryon@feddit.org 5 months ago
This is in beta, not available for all users and you can also disable it easily: support.ecosia.org/article/994-ai-overviews
Malek061@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Duck duck go
Nalivai@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unfortunately, it’s not better and also shows slop
Krompus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for over a decade, the results are fine, and !bangs are extremely useful for piping queries directly to specific sites, !w for wikipedia !aw for archwiki etc. The Duck.ai function is a recent addition, and can be easily disabled if you don’t want it. By default it doesn’t usually pop up by itself. You can also use lite.duckduckgo.com for a much leaner search and absolutely no AI.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was trying to use it for a long time, but the results are never fine for me. The situation when I search for something specific, the duck shows me nothing, and the google shows me exactly what I need is far too often for me to completely switch.
Granted, I don’t keep cookies, I use all the adblocks possible, and I disabled google’s LLM bullshit, otherwise google is borderline unusable.astutemural@midwest.social 8 months ago
Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 8 months ago
You can at least turn off its built-in summaries. But some filtering to detect AI generated articles would be nice.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
You can ask it to turn off the summaries. It still shows them but you can ask.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fish@midwest.social 8 months ago
If you’re willing to pay money then Kagi is a great alternative. They claim they don’t collect or share your data. Though, Kagi isn’t very good for local search results and probably never will be.
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 8 months ago
You’ve probably heard this before but do consider alternatives like Startpage and Qwant. It’s not flawless but I’ve found it’s definitely better.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m gonna go a step further and recommend searx :)
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I use my boyfriends own browser. Boyfriend, please explain it:
Soooo, it’s called searXNG. It’s a metasearch engine I host locally. It searches across multiple search engines, like duck duck go and others. And then shows the results as a normal webpage. It also changes your “fingerprint” per every search, and every search/result is proxied through the server. If you wanna try it out, you can use (public instance): searx.bndkt.io But you can easily host it locally from the source or with docker.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m using searx, too, but google’s results still stand to be some of the most relevant.