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Looking for new search engine (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I've been using duckduckgo for years now with no issues, but today I opened it and realized there were no longer any search results before scrolling. It was all ads/info cards. So I guess I'm looking for a replacement. Any suggestions?

Related: anyone know if there's a way in the Adnauseum Firefox extension to hide ads on a specific trusted site? I like their goal of not punishing ads following the do not track standard, but DDG has crossed a threshold and I now want to blacklist them specifically.

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[–] thisispiggy 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think it's a mix of a few things.

The quality is on par with Google unless it's local results. I feel the other search engines just have inferior results, whereas Kagi gets part of their search from Google.

Theres no ads and you have a lot of customization options. It just feels to me overall like what Google should have been.

I like how I can add reddit as a search filter and with one button I can search Reddit instead of having to type site:. I know it's a small thing but is convenient on mobile.

You can pin and rate sites. So you can do things like pin Lemmy or GitHub posts to top of search.

The AI is non intrusive and gives really nice concise info.

Idk. Initially I just paid for a month to see how it feels, now it just feels weird to do search in Google.

[–] Sigma_ 3 points 2 months ago

It’ll also search the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for that, those all sound solid features