And what do you mean “even mozilla”… There are money deals between these Google and mozilla. Google pays mozilla a lot of money to set Google as default search.
It’s a paid service, so it’d be a bad default for a web browser. Not saying it’s a bad search engine; saying that it’s a bad search engine default for the every day folk who just installed a web browser.
If you don’t mind having to occasionally refresh the page due to search engine timeout, a public Searxng metasearch engine. I use one just to straight up bypass having to go to any specific search engine. Also allows me to see results from both gøøg|e and b*ng without having to go to either.
What I like about it is that it’s trained on lots of different sources (including, but not limited to Google, and Bing search results). It then strips out the ads, SEO blog spam, and other nonsense and tries to return the most relevant info for my query. It is leagues better than pure Google. Also, it uses its own LLM unrelated to OpenAI.
A bit unfortunate that I got downvoted for having an opinion and sharing it.
What do you suggest? Because even Mozilla uses Google for its search.
Duck duck?
Kagi… It’s so good you forget Google.
And what do you mean “even mozilla”… There are money deals between these Google and mozilla. Google pays mozilla a lot of money to set Google as default search.
It is so good that when I use Google on someone else’s computer, I’m surprised at how bad Google has become.
It’s a paid service, so it’d be a bad default for a web browser. Not saying it’s a bad search engine; saying that it’s a bad search engine default for the every day folk who just installed a web browser.
I agree. I would recommend duckduckgo for a free search engine.
Hopefully they’ll do a freemium service at some point like Proton does
As the default as it pays for web development. You can change this to DuckDuckGo in settings and I strongly recommend that you do.
https://searx.neocities.org/
Right click the address bar to add it to your search bar
I’ve been using Searx for a couple of weeks now. It seems to be working well.
I really like startpage, but I’m pretty sure it’s just Google with some tweaks
If you don’t mind having to occasionally refresh the page due to search engine timeout, a public Searxng metasearch engine. I use one just to straight up bypass having to go to any specific search engine. Also allows me to see results from both gøøg|e and b*ng without having to go to either.
Thanks sound interesting.
Kagi.
Bruh, it asks for login. No thanks.
startpage, had the Best results for me in the last couple of months, much better then google. and the anonymous view feature is handy and neat
Why don’t you google it? /s
Lol absolutely it’s the only way.
I’m using qwant as my default now. It does well for most searches, but for map related things I still use google.
i’m using a mix of ddg startpage and occasionally yandex, and its been good so far.
if you have more good suggestions drop em here.
Well since google is the whale, anything but google would work to reduce their market power.
I know Lemmy likes to hate on AI, but my default search engine is http://perplexity.ai and it’s great
According to Perplexity, that’s just Google Search with some OpenAI sprinkled on top… So yeah, I’m gonna hate on it lol.
What I like about it is that it’s trained on lots of different sources (including, but not limited to Google, and Bing search results). It then strips out the ads, SEO blog spam, and other nonsense and tries to return the most relevant info for my query. It is leagues better than pure Google. Also, it uses its own LLM unrelated to OpenAI.
A bit unfortunate that I got downvoted for having an opinion and sharing it.
You are part of the problem