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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(In the case that someone in Lemmy still use Google)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use mainly Andisearch, also has AI but relay on reliable sources (and one of the most privat search out there), Startpage and Whoogle use the old Google search engine, Mojeek also is fine, Groot search has a own search index, Etools a Suiss made Metasearch engine and some more. In the Vivaldi Forum you'll find the, maybe, most complete list of search engines you can try.

[–] PunkiBas 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whoa! You weren't kidding about that list of search engines. What's with the Germans and search engines? They sure do have a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The author of th Thread is German, he icluded because of this also searches in German media sites or dictionaries. But if you want a German search engine, you can use MetaGer, not bad at all. Good privacy but freemium, in the free version there are ads, (context, anonymous) and limited on 2 search engines.

[–] PunkiBas 2 points 7 months ago

Hah! I in fact have been using metager for a couple of months now as my defult search engine, since I saw it recommended in Lemmy those 2 months ago. Works great. Tried kagi before but I just don't search that much and paying per search makes much more sense to me.