searching a specific problem, on what search engine it is…
no satisfactory answer. what else is there? other than just asking questions on lemmy?
searching a specific problem, on what search engine it is…
no satisfactory answer. what else is there? other than just asking questions on lemmy?
It’s gotten terrible over the last 5 years. AI slop is infecting everything and causing so much noise, it’s impossible to find real info anymore.
Best I can suggest is searches across Starpage, DDG, Qwant and Brave. When one fails, try the next one.
tenbluelinks.org gets you to have the web api for google. Can install it in your browser. I’ve been using it fr a year, even managed to build a shortcut (I named it “Google no AI”) in Safari on iOS and searches are tolerable on google again.
Yeah, I have a Searxng and 4get instance and I could add the Google API and have that option as well, but it seems like a minimal amount of effort barely proportional to what Google can go these days.
Maybe I’ll give it a shot.
Good suggestions except for Brave.
I would also add Kagi - I usually save this one for when other searches fail.
Edit: Oh, and Ecosia is another you could use.
Well, you can just use a Searxng or 4get instance and get the Brave results without needing to trust them that much. Depends on your threat model.
Since Kagi is paid, demands a login, and is private, it’s hard to fully trust without an audit trail. Which they don’t have enough for Privacy Guides to OK it to recommend. People can be politically aligned to you and still sell your data.