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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Users are testing the impact of not using Google.

Spoiler: non-LLM enshittified search engines return reliable results and usually are not censored.

[–] lando55 9 points 1 month ago

I've been testing this for years now and the transition has been seamless

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've been using DuckDuckGo a lot more recently and it's been pretty good. I've tried a few others but not really found one I love yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

DuckDuckGo is still the main one but the Bing results annoy me (MSN news proxied articles from other news sites)

Up and comers that are promising:

Ecosia: https://www.ecosia.org/

Startpage: https://www.startpage.com/

Stumbled on this today, worth a look: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/