this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
119 points (96.1% liked)

Technology

84816 readers
3776 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
119
Google Search as you know it is over - but there are alternatives (see post) (techcrunch.com)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by FallenWalnut@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47107360

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/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t know because I mainly use DuckDuckGo and haven’t had a reason to use Google in a long time.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo is just Microslop Bing with a different front-end.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, whatever bias and censorship Micro$lop’s search index has, except supposedly without the tracking. It’s a step up from Google and Bing, but not the perfect solution.

[–] QueenFern@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

What do you recommend?

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago

If you live in Europe, the French search engine Qwant is great.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago

I recommend DDG as the first line, and kagi free tier if you can't find it on DDG.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago

I, as of yet, haven't really explored any alternatives, but I see a lot of others mentioned in the comments here.