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Is there any non-ai search engine out there that’s still operational? (hexbear.net)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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With the news that Google’s search engine completely switching over to AI, is there anything out there that can replace it? DuckDuckGo’s results have been pretty awful recently, and when I pulled up Yandex the only option it gave me was to use their AI search.

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[–] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can always set up a Searxng instance and configure it to use as many or as few search engines as you like. It doesn't pull in the AI results.

Duckduckgo has always gotten me whatever I need, so their lite version can be used alongside ublock origin on Firefox for an AI free ad free search. But hey, if you're not finding what you like, I'd say give the searxng solution a try.

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