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?

  • NirodhaAvidya@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Kagi if you are willing to pay for the service. I think that’s reasonable but your needs may vary.

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      1 month ago

      I might pay for quality search if my searches weren’t linked back to my credit card and therefore identity.

    • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com
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      1 month ago

      If it wasn’t something I use every day and even for work, I wouldn’t bother. But yeah, Kagi result are definitely better. Being able to rate sites high/lower in results and blocking some all together really has helped filter out the nonsense that a lot of search engines give