Is there any good, free search engine left? - eviltoast

Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don’t respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I’m not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

    • fjordbasa@lemmy.world
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      Low effort websites made easier by LLM generated text. It’s not new, just made easier with the ubiquity of LLM tools. Think of it as the latest generation of spam websites 🙃

      • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Ah I see. Junk ‘news’ and other regurgitated blah. Yeah, I’d guess any free search engine will probably be bloated with that. Not to mention that it’s google, bing, and orange bing. Not a ton of crawlers out there indexing everything is there?

        • Darorad@lemmy.world
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          The only other (not absolutely tiny) one I’m aware of is brave, but it has its own issues