A magical word.
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc all suffer the same problems. I’d love to hear other alternatives (and I don’t mean alternatives like searx that is little more than lipstick on a pig and proxies search results from said engines).
DuckDuckGo is just Bing wearing a duck hat
And yet it works better than Bing somehow.
It actually doesn't.
There's nothing perfect. I use Kagi which uses many other indexes including Google, but with a focus on "small web" results and no ads or mandatory AI nonsense.
...but it costs money.
Well worth it in my opinion. My results have been better than Google for me, and I've been using it for like a year now. Highly recommend.
I learned about kagi when I got here on Lemmy and I've been using it since. Sucks that it costs money but they're not making money elsewhere, that i know of, so it can't just be a loss leader and free.
Unfortunately Kagi is out of reach of most of the world. I'm sure it's great for those privileged enough to have access to it, though.
Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com/
Thanks! I’ll give it a try.
How is DuckDuckGo shitty? It suits me fine.
Here are my gripes:
Ah yes, I have to admit the constant AI shilling does make me want to look elsewhere. I also didn't know that it's basically askjeeves but for B‽ng, lol
That's not the word I would use but yeah, it's basically a frontend for Bing. And what's especially annoying is that it serves you links to unpaywalled news that's behind an MSN paywall.
Thanks for that because I do feel like, thinking back to earlier today it wasn't giving me the video result I was looking for when searching for "Chinese tiktok make America great again"
shoves results about completely different contexts of the words, most noticeable when trying to look up game mechanics which share names with IRL phenomenon.
I'm starting to be convinced that it really is being enshittified almost daily lol
well there’s european based search engines like marginalia-search.com (but it mainly uses keywords, but has search filters at the bottom of the search result) and stract.com (which is in beta), I’d like to see if there’s more tho
I daily DDG but !g bang out to Google 80% of the time
Hit the back button once this month though - DDG was better than Google!!!
Has only happened twice I’ve noticed in a year!
DDG, pls use my data to be less terribly terrible (and stop rearranging results, as reported years ago)
PS: will get Kagi once I find a job cuz too lazy or something to get into SearXNG properly like I should. And Mullvad’s got Leta btw which like bundles searches for privacy
It's like the fucking 90s all over again but for completely different reasons.
Brave uses their own index
Would this be the Brave that has the cryptobro stuff in it?
Yes bit you can use their search without thwor browser