this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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Don’t use Google. It’s an advertising company. Why would anyone expect to get actual results from a company whose entire existence depends on you clicking ads.
I agree. However, I still feel like it delivers the best search results.
Then use SearxNG or StartPage
Gave you tried a Kagi demo? I’ve been using it for months and it’s been markedly better results for most searches.
Try Duck Duck Go for a week.
You're rationalising supporting a toxic company.
Welcome to capitalism.
As long as you really like pinterest and nothing else.
It doesn't anymore. It's SEO is bonked.
And even then, there's alternatives anyway. Sightly better search isn't worth supporting Google.
You can't say you're anti-AI and then literally help fund AI.
Yes, and it poofed into existence inside their vaults! /S
They got it from people using Search. Search is still their main money maker.
that's not been the case for years at this point
Use 4get! I self host my own but you can find endless public instances online, like 4get.ca
4get is a proxy search engine that strips out all the tracking and garbage, so on the search instance you can pick whether you want it to use Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and a bunch of other ones.
"IQ Test" with every fucking search?? Hard pass.
That's just that one single instance, heres one I host with no bot test for bots https://4get.lurx.net/
Thank you!
It's self hostable. I somehow missed that bit. Even better!