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?

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    10·
    2 months ago

    I think Searx is a good suggestion. Can be a bit slow to return results because it runs the search on a bunch of search engines and compiles the results, but that helps to make sure better stuff rises to the top.

    • logging_strict@lemmy.ml
      61·
      2 months ago

      The other suggestions aren’t suggestions at all. They are obsoleted by searx.space

      DDG … obsolete

      startpage.com … obsolete

      Browsers have default search engines. Curse everytime, DDG is accidentally queried.

      DDG is a curse word!

      Any centralized site, with privacy claims, is treated as lying thru their teeth. Front run future news.