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    10 months ago

    Google search quality has been declining since they took away the plus operator

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      10 months ago

      Ya it’s such crap results nowadays. What do you guys use for your default search engine? I like ddg.

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        Kagi is great but it’s a subscription based platform ($10/month). Well worth it, at least for me.

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          +1 for kagi. I think they have a smaller subscription too. Also not too long ago they changed the 10$ subscription from 700 searches/month to unlimited, which gives hope that they might improve the pricing over time.

          As a side note, it is surprising how many searches one does during the month! I thought I did thousands per month, turns out I am always between 200 and 400!

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              Thx I’ll look into.

              Edit: I’m not to familiar yet with Lemmy, so I hope that this thank you comment reach’s everyone that replied. Appreciate the knowledge sharing.

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            It was surprising for me how many searches I do in the opposite way. Thought I did hundreds per month, ended up being between 2,000 and 3,000.

            I am one of those people who constantly thinks of questions and looks it up. Which makes me think of another question.

            With Kagi I can actually find the answer though. On Google I could do several searches and still not find anything besides ads and ai generated fake content.

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          I guess with meta(sh*t) trying to extort their user base for a monthly subscription service fee just for privacy in the eu, paying for a search engine could make sense…

          Much obliged, i shall take a look at this kagi.

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        I selfhost a SearXNG instance in my homelab. It aggregates results from multiple sites, works without JavaScript and filters out all tracking, AMP bullshit and so on.

        It is important to run it at home, Google tends to blacklist VPS address ranges, and if you have a public instance, you’ll get rate limited quite fast.

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                I did a ton of homelab stuff this weekend, planning to write everything down eventually and publish it somewhere…

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                  I hope you do! Can you pls add a link to this comment chain if or when you do. Id be interested in learning more.

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          I did that a while ago but always ran in timeouts for some search engines (varied from time to time). Also the order of search results is often completely fucked up. And sometimes I search for something and got something completely different. For example I searched for something like “open source software” and the search results were filled with porn lol.

          Also what’s bad about self hosting this in your home network is that your SearXNG instance does the searches from your home network of course. That means all the searches to all the selected search engines like Google, Bing etc. are made from your IP which is counterproductive when it’s privacy you’re trying to achieve.

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        10 months ago

        I’m using ddg. It used to be noticeably worse than google; now Google is noticeably worse than ddg.

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          But how can you trust anything brave says? Fool me once, shame on you, full me twice, shame on me, try and fool me thrice…nah, the joke is you > bravebrowser…

          I thought this place is to get away from imperialist capitalism big tech privacy violators and abusers.

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    Because the entire internet is one big Amazon link back. I’m not even joking. Ran DDG earlier on a dvd burner model and the first two pages were Amazon links. The next were other competing stores. WTF.

    But I mean we gated it all behind like 3 companies. Can’t believe it didn’t turn out good.

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    This guy gesticulates with one hand for a couple of seconds, then grabs the microphone with that hand and then gesticulates the exact same way with the other hand and just keeps doing that for the entire twelve minute video.

    Once I noticed it became almost impossible to keep paying attention to what he was saying.

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    He had a point until he mentioned Reddit. While it used to be true that it had really detailed answers to specific questions, who knows how long that will remain the case with all their changes.

    Try out SearXING (https://paulgo.io/) where you can edit preferences on what it crawls.

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    10 months ago

    Just 5 minutes ago, tried to google search a topic, got instead a blank white page saying we don’t recognize your phone traffic, please complete this capcha to prove you’re not a robot.

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      Google is an ad company first, and as long as that gravy train is flowing they’ll be fine. Their dominance as a search engine is just to maintain their monopoly on internet ads, not give customers a good searching experience, hence why sponsored links are the first thing to appear and count as a view in their analytics

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    I don’tknow, I don’t use Google search since many Years. The nearest I used are Startpage and Whoogle, but currently Andisearch, Mojeek, AstianGo and sometimes MetaGer. Apart of this only specific ones (Wiki, WolphramAlpha, Images, Forums…)

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    10 months ago

    Feels worse than what exactly? Than google search N years ago?

    Every alternative I tried is objectively worse than google search, instead of writing these cope articles, why doesn’t someone make a search that’s objectively better than google search instead?