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Even Yandex actually doesnt suck, if you're cool to use it.
Anyone still using Google needs to be in a home.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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I am using Qwant and Ecosia
is that as profitable as search?
It's a bubble, so yes, until it bursts, it's more profitable. And the CEOs want to bonus themselves; they don't care about the medium run.
Been a kagi subscriber for about a year now. Right when they wer implementing ai overview. It’s been a very refreshing way to internet
google being useful for search has been over for at least a decade
Genuine question: What are you using?
I'm using ddg, I used to have trouble finding stuff, and occasionally used Google in the beginning, but I've not had to Google something in over a year now
Yay, worse search
Just when you thought it couldn’t get even worse…. Google disappoints yet again. Maybe this will be the push people need to start using alts
Ecosia.org ⬆️
Cool concept; really, REALLY dumb name.
Eco-seer isn't really that bad, and "misspelling" the company name is almost mandatory.
Is a deliberate misspelling of googol any better for a company name?
Google search as I know it shit the bed over a decade ago.
When ads became more important than search results. The more searches you need to attempt, the more ads they get to auction off companies who are still dumb enough to think search ads work.
Yeah, it's so tiring. Search for something, entire first page is useless aggregator sites, containing nothing about the actual topic other than keywords. Waste of time
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Google Search has long since diminished from it's peak. 15 years ago we used to play a "game" by describing something as vaguely or strangely as possible and would be entertained to find it still on the first page of search results.
SEO and paid ranking caused a steady decline in Google search performance, and LLMs are the kill shot.
Indexing and ranking were already a solved problem, and conventional algorithms accomplished it much better than LLMs do. Unfortunately, LLMs need to find uses to justify investment, so now they must be used for any task that they can be used for, even if its worse than the solutions that we already had.
To be clear, Google's declining performance was caused by Google's endorsement of (bad) SEO, paid ranking, and building a monopoly. It intentionally destroyed itself.
SEO and paid ranking caused a steady decline in Google search performance
Yeah, this much started eating into the users' need for that one good answer.
even if its worse than the solutions that we already had.
Like Gemini replacing Assistant. Holy shit, what a dumpster fire.
Absolutely nailed it.
The other factor is companies, interests, paying the Google and their ilk to not include things in search results. And only include what they choose as an alternative.
Then you might have different interests gaming the search results to bury something they don't like.
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I wouldn’t know because I mainly use DuckDuckGo and haven’t had a reason to use Google in a long time.
DuckDuckGo is just Microslop Bing with a different front-end.
Isn't every alternative search engine just bing or google in the background?
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.
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SearXNG. I will never understand why it doesn’t get used more. It is so easy to set up.
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I haven't used Google search since 2008, when I starting using Linux and Duckduckgo was the default search engine for Firefox.
Oh, how Firefox changed...
Firefox always used Google as their default search engine, since Google pays a lot of money for that privilege.
Edit: some Linux distros used to change that default while they were shipping a non-branded fork of Firefox.
Ugh, damn post title. I went through the whole article looking for the alternatives before realizing the title of the article says nothing about alternatives.
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