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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Got any viable alternatives? Duckduckgo just doesn’t cut it for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can always use !g ‘bang’ on the searchbar which will open results from google

You can also try searx, or searxng

https://docs.searxng.org/ https://searx.thegpm.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I committed to using ddg for a couple years, but after having to use bangs for everything but the most trivial searches, I had to be honest with myself and just go back to Google. Google's definitely a lot worse than it used to be, but in my experience it's sadly still the best of the mainstream search engines.

Never heard of searx though, I'll have to give it a try

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Give kagi a shot, it has worked great for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’ve heard of them before but the pricing seems pretty steep. I now see they also have a free trial plan, I’ll check that out.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No problem! Make sure to test the universal summarizer also, it has been extremely useful for skimming scientific papers and documentations (you can also select "discuss further" to ask specific questions about the material).

I also felt that the price is too much, until I started to actually think how much I use and rely on search engines in my life, and suddenly the cost doesn't seem all that high. Granted I'm fortunate enough to live in a high-income country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can always use !g ‘bang’ on the searchbar which will open results from google

You can also try searx, or searxng

https://docs.searxng.org/ https://searx.thegpm.org/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’ve tried searx some years ago but couldn’t find a stable instance and didn’t want to host my own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, that sucks, if you like google and understand the risks, then yeah by all means use it, what I do personally is use duckduckgo as it provides good results 90 percent of the time, when it doesn’t, i just type ‘!g’ on the search bar and it redirects me to google search results