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Google is losing it (lemmy.world)
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (22 children)

I stopped using Google years ago. I started using Bing but had to stop that as it would divert me to MSN to sign in when clicking a link for a news article. Like a news article for The Independent or The Times or any other.

I then started using DuckDuckGo which is powered by Bing, but found it wasn’t great at many searches.

I now use Arc Search most of the time and click browse for me to get the information I want without the bullshit. Search is essentially dead due to greed.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Startpage and Qwant are the best alternatives IMO.
    https://www.qwant.com/
    https://www.startpage.com/

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I used Qwant for a few days and then it popped up a modal dialog asking me to turn off my ad-blocker. Never used it again after that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Funny I've never seen that, but I switch around from time to time. Because none are perfect unfortunately.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    kagi is the best but it will cost you $10 a month. It's been worth it to me, but probably not to everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Interesting concept, but it's a bit expensive IMO, considering the huge amount of "free" options.

    The pricing is only in USD without taxes. Listing the price excluding tax is illegal here (Denmark and I think the rest of EU), so apparently not a service meant for use outside USA.
    Ad free is not a problem for me, i use Firefox with µBlock Origin.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Thanks. I’ll check these out.

    What do you prefer about each of them?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Startpage uses outside search results, but should be very secure like DuckDuckGo, and better certified.
    Qwant is AFAIK more independent, and I like the layout better.

    Both give pretty good search results IMO, but are somewhat lacking in map/geographic searches. For instance searching "Angola" could result in a restaurant in London. Just as a hypothetical example.
    So I do use Google maps too.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    qwant uses bing and is mostly a proxy for it. Startpage is a proxy for google. the only thing they really do is protect your privacy, they don't give you better search results.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Tried start page after DDG outage on Thursday and I'm liking it a lot

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Start page was out too afaik

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nope I tried it precisely when DDG was out and it was working.... Images were not so those may have come from Bing... But regular searches were working

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I'm finding SearXNG to be very good. It operates like dogpile used to but is actually functional and it pretty much entirely squelches product placement results. I actually have to manually go to google if I want to get product listings for something.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Seems to only have an iOS app right now. There is a desktop version for Windows and MacOS Here.

    It is annoying that it wants to send you the download link by email though.

    Edit: Here is an example of how the results look when asking for opening times of a book store in my city.

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