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Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don't respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I'm not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I use Qwant sometimes but it's sourced from Bing. Searx is better if you can self-host. Kagi is better if you can afford to pay (but you asked for free).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't Kagi offer X amount of free searches per month before you pay?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

No. They have a trial of 100 one-time searches, but that's it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's also Startpage, also pretty good. That has search results from Google and a bit of Bing though, so if that's a dealbreaker, then yeah.