What search engine are tolerable in 2025? (hexbear.net)

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I tend to use DuckDuckGo most of the time, but its quality has collapsed considerably. Google is terrible now and only worth it for reverse image search. I haven't tried Brave much and SearX-NG was a pain to set up for being a de-facto Google and Bing wrapper. There's Kagi but I don't really have $120/yr for a search engine, nor do I want to deal with how they handle logins and session management.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

I use DDG, it at least has the courtesy to ask me if I want AI slop so I can say “no”, and not have it forced on me.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

I'm not worried about the AI overviews, it's the indexing of AI content that annoys me

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