As you said there are people who don't want to switch from Chrome and Google, but at this point if you're talking about a ten step fix-it plan, is really does make more sense to just use Firefox and DDG. Or searx, I'm pretty sure that's still fewer steps.
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"Hey wanna use our AI chat?!"
"Hey, like these autogenerated result-blobs instead of your actual results?"
"Hey, we thought you hate finding the place you were looking for, so we use Apple Maps to ensure you're getting fucking nowhere, ever!"
I wish DDG was usable. All it is, is a good showcase that Google isn't as bad as they could be.
I’ve never noticed anything of what you describe. Perhaps they get filtered by uBlock. And isn’t the default Bing Maps for DDG?
DDG AI chat is actually pretty decent, offers multiple options for free with no noticable limit; maps is dogshit agreed, still have to fall back to google, use uBlock and can remove the featured results on DDG.
Kagi is better than all of them besides your own SearXNG setup. I’ve always thought DDG was bad, but man Kagi is like going back to the good ole days of Google in the 2000s.
I wish Kagi wasn’t as expensive as it is.
If it was $5 a month for unlimited searches I would be all over it but 300 searches is too few and $10 is too much money.
I think the price won't come down until they get more subscribers. I agree that 300 isn't enough for any sort of software dev, but it's fine if you're careful about your searches. I went the first trial month keeping it under 300. When I started paying for 1000 then it was easy to keep it under that. Then they switched it to unlimited which is nice, but I still hardly ever go over 1k. If there was a 1k option I would definitely go with that since you only pay fractions of a cent per search after that so I would save money.
Yeah. I went to duck duck go a while ago.
Their default maps is terrible, but web search works fine.
For some reason the only videos they link on the video tab is YouTube tho, which sucks and you're better off just searching YouTube instead at that point.
This is like those 20 minute videos for a problem that can be fixed in 20 sec
At the end of the day, if you keep using google, you will keep getting manipulated into what google wants you to. It may be fair, as it is free. Its a choice really. I pay a small amount to Kagi and have clean results with optional Ai if i feel like using it.
I actually like the ai answer box
Why don't you like the AI answer box (other than it being wrong sometimes)?
Partly it's aesthetic - it takes up so much room!
Partly it's preferential - I'm not keen on machine generated answers being prioritised over actual sources.
Mainly though it's because when I do a search, I usually know what website I expect/want to get to, and just want that available to click immediately.