So ddg is down, so I visit Google. It’s been some years.

I just can’t believe how poor it’s results are, and how it’s trying to suggest things it think I might also want (and failing miserably).

I just assumed ddg would be the lesser, but I use it for privacy. Turns out I’m wrong.

How long has Google been this bad?

  • 30p87@feddit.de
    81·
    6 months ago

    If you have spare hardware lying around and a public IP (or a server anyway), you can selfhost SearXNG.
    If you’re fine with paying 12$/month (with tax) for a customizable search engine, very accurate and transparently sourced/quoted LLM, and just a better index than any other search engine I know, use Kagi. I heard some rumors and bad things, but nothing to do with privacy, only the aforementioned tax.
    And for a free search engine which claims privacy and is an alternative to DDG, with its own index afaik, Brave.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      2·
      6 months ago

      How are SearXNG results? I tried a self hosted yacy instance, but its results are pre-AltaVista bad.