Google is making its Search more centred around AI, turning it into a conversation.
Besides being a worse experience, the websites from which it sources its information are losing all traffic and recognition.
Recommend a list of alternatives:
- Kagi - Paid but better experience than Google
- Ecosia - Similar experience while supporting a good cause
- Qwant - Increasingly unique results and building a EU-first index
- DuckDuckGo - Privacy-focused search, but quality of results may vary
More options: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/search-engine/
Quite happy with Ecosia right now. They are building the EU index together with Quant. Be sure to turn off AI overviews in settings so they don’t get automatically generated. The only thing that bothers me is how fuzzy the search is. When I search for a specific problem it often just shows me the main website of the project in question.
Been paying for Kagi for well over a year now. It’s great. Never looked back.
The web is still a steaming pile of shit but it digs through the shit without treating me like I’m also shit.
The only reason I really have to keep Google’s search bar on my home screen is Lens, it’s unfortunately the best option currently for quickly translating signs and food packaging in my host country.
I mainly use mojeek, and its kinda decent for a bespoke search engine.
Just use SearXNG and aggregate them all.
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Then why don’t you try it instead of yapping about garbage?
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I’ve been using Brave Search for 6 months and surprisingly happy with it. I never really liked DDG.
Brave Search is good too.
I made the same comment as you and got downvoted too lol
Apparently people know something about Brave search that we don’t.
