It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

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[+] 41 points 2 years ago (11 children)
  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    DDG is ok for most searches, but they have definitely hit a plateau. Programming search results are quite poor, for instance.

    I’ve started paying for kagi. Their results are just way better at this point.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I don't live in the US and the regional results for my country are worse on DuckDuckGo than on Google.

    But still, I noticed Google's quality drastically falling down in recent years.

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

    It is as useless. After all, it's just Bing. But if the results are good enough for you, then why bother finding something else.

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

    Hmm, I did notice a sudden severe drop in quality recently. Perhaps they are A/B testing something.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's not as bad as Google yet, but I find myself getting terrible or no results quite a few times.

    Ex: if I'm looking for a niche blog post from example.com, just entering the keywords doesn't return the right result, if anything at all. I have to add "site:example.com" and the right link shows up on top.

    It's kinda amusing when this happens, but I keep using ddg anyway because bing and Google had the same issue for the same keywords when I ran into the issue.

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

    Ddg cannot filter out results. If you don't want pages containing the term, term you add -term to your search and those results should not be included.

    Ddg doesn't do this. I did a brief test of many search engines, and only google and mojeek filtered results correctly.

    Edit: yadex seems to have working filtering.

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