For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

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    10 months ago

    The dangers of a monopoly. No matter how bad Google gets people will still use it because, in many people’s minds, there is no other search engine.

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      10 months ago

      What are those? DDG, Bing, Ecosia etc. are all not really better than Google. I haven‘t tried Kagi yet, mostly because it costs money.

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        10 months ago

        I agree it does suck in general One thing I tried is using a metasearch engine and for the least part I find the results better and way more customizable (for reference I am self hosting searxNG)

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        10 months ago

        You can use Kagi for free if you make an account and only use it when the others fail. Love Kagi, but won’t pay for it.

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        10 months ago

        i was struggling with DDG too, but in another post i saw someone recommend searx and it is actually really good.

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          10 months ago

          Fyi searx is deprecated or at least not maintained and discontinued Switch to searxNG which is an active fork and it is really good :D

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        10 months ago

        You can actually try kagi for free. 100 searches/month should be enough for you to decide if it’s worth the money to you.

        (Not affiliated; just a happy user)