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Google “search” (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by themaninblack to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is why I stopped going since about 4 years ago now. One day I just went to a different mall, and never looked back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where? I feel Google has gone way downhill but the Bing based search engines haven't seemed any better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that mall is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tons of alternatives.
search engines with independent indexes(i.e., not beholden to any big search engine):

  • mojeek
  • brave search(semi independent)
  • kagi(semi independent)

meta-search engines(gets results from other search engines):

  • startpage(google)
  • duckduckgo(bing)
  • qwant(bing)
  • swisscows(bing)
  • metager(multiple sources)
  • searx(ng)(multiple sources, configurable by user)

I'm still missing a ton but this should give you an idea.

for more, see this interactive graph, or this Wikipedia list which includes other niche types of search engines as well.

I personally use mojeek(because of their independent index) with duckduckgo as a fallback.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

thanks a lot for the mention, if you wanna use that fallback less and less, feeding back on algo updates via https://www.mojeek.com/eval always helps us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

didn't know about the page. thanks! and good to see you on Lemmy.