What are the highest quality search engines? - eviltoast

It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

    • Kayn@dormi.zone
      302·
      10 months ago

      I’m really happy with Kagi. The fact that I can blacklist certain domains from showing up in search results is chef’s kiss.

      Back when I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, I found myself occasionally using the !g bang to fall back to Google results. So far I haven’t felt the need once in Kagi.

        • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
          91·
          10 months ago

          I’ve been using it for months and maybe popped back over to Google only a handful of times.

          DDG is okay but it’s miserable in comparison. I haven’t tried Ecosia long enough to form a proper opinion but my first impressions weren’t great.

          The only people who actively rail against it seem to be the standard group of Fediverse who are… a bit too online 😉

      • Subverb@lemmy.world
        91·
        10 months ago

        I’m also very happy with kagi. I get search results with no fluff to sort through or scroll past every time I search. It’s such a breath of fresh air.

        Kagi is also doing some interesting things with search and many, many things that let you customize how the results are presented to you.

        Also, intesrtingly, kagi is growing rapidly and as yet they have spent literally zero dollars on advertisements. Purely word of mouth.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’ve felt the need a couple times but Google results were always worse.

    • TwinTusks@bitforged.spaceEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I only heard of Kagi in lemmy, very intrigued, however as I lived in third-world country, the price plan is unfeasible for me to consider.

      • sunbytes@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        You get the first hundred a month for free.

        Maybe you could ration it for when you need high-quality searches?

        • TwinTusks@bitforged.spaceEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          You get the first hundred a month for free

          Thats more rational, I thought it was just the first hundred searches were free.

    • cll7793@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Due to how important search is, it is not a stable solution to place the trust of the technology, your data privacy, and fair pricing to a corporation. Kagi so far seems great don’t get me wrong! But enshitification from monetary incentives almost always occur. Open source search is the only stable long term solution.

    • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      33·
      10 months ago

      Isn’t there that whole controversy with kagi going on about transphobia homophobia stuff?

      Edit: apparently it was homophobia not transphobia.

      • Kayn@dormi.zone
        151·
        10 months ago

        Kagi has recently started getting part of its search results from Brave’s search index. That’s literally all there is to it.