Would recommend trying SearXNG
Paraphrased from Wikipedia:
SearxNG is a free and open-source metasearch engine, available under AGPL-3.0, with the aim of protecting its users privacy with ease of use by providing aggregated search results.
You have no choice
Submitted 2 weeks ago by severalkittens@ani.social to animemes@ani.social
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recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Time is not a flat circle, but an endless spiral. We’ve come back around to Dogpile
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
u block optional list under “annoyances”
bazzett@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago You can add a custom filter too:
www.google.*##[data-mcp]:not(:has([data-mcp] [id*="folsrch"])):has([id*="folsrch"])
DeLancre@piefed.social 2 weeks ago Or you can open google with &udm=14 — it automatically switch to “web” version, which doesn’t have ads, recommended, ai overview and other features. It just searches what you typed (weird concept for search engine)
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
vapeloki@lemmy.world 1 week ago
aeiou@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Behold, an ancient relic from the depths of the early interwebs: http://blackle.com
Originally intended to cut power usage in the days of CRT monitors, it continues to deliver old-style google results for reasons unknown
Though Google is probably still tracking you through it, somehow.
joyjoy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I disabled the Google app to get rid of the annoying android ai powered “circle to search”. Now when I accidentally hold the home button, it says “To use Circle to Search, first enable the Google app”.
Why can’t I rebind that in stock android?
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Because you don’t have stock android, you have googles modified android
beyoublahaj@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago Was that last thing not in settings>apps>default apps>digital assistant apps ?
joyjoy@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They removed the digital assistant.
brb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We all need to stop giving them money, that means data. We gotta get everyone we know to stop too.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just deleted youtube after a 4-day outage cured my addiction.
MiRRoRMaN@ani.social 2 weeks ago I been trying my darndest to survive google changes to android a 158 days from now (keepandroidopen.org) I run eOs (e.foundation/e-os/) on my phone now. Hope it will help, but I dunno if its gonna be enough.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
https://metager.org does the trick
monkdervierte@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Click on “Web” (or add
&udm=14to the URL), save as new search engine / bookmark.Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Is google still provides the best results and meets your needs best there are extensions that remove the ai overview :)
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
duckduckgo.com
Free, does not take your data, you can turn the ai thing on and off
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
And even noai.duckduckgo.com
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t have it off by default, and not all browsers let you set a custom search engine to direct to the “No AI” version
I still use DDG since it’s the least bad, but it’s still hypocritical for a “private” search engine to default to an AI
If you don’t clear your cookies on these other browsers, tap the settings icon of search assist placed on the top right corner, and select Never.
(Though I’ve recently been told that it uses Bing’s index, so real searches may struggle.)
yeah, it’s reasonably good, only struggles with more niche searches - when I search for seemingly unrelated topics it often falls back to showing ~5 generic links for one of the topics, then ~5 generic links for the other, but if I search for the same with Google &udm=14, it finds the specific niche topic I was looking for
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s pretty good nowadays.