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Some of my friends just switched to DDG just because Google isn’t reliable anymore since the results became only ads
DDG isn't all that great anymore either because they get their results from Bing - which has also gone to shit. Any alternative search providers that gets their results from Google or Bing (which is most of them) are all nearly worthless now, IMHO. The ones that operate their own engines and crawlers, such as Kagi, are the ones that give results like we used to get before enshittification.
But then again, with the death of web forums and everything being consolidated into a small handful of sites, site:reddit.com is required for almost every search query I do these days. If I want to read something written by an actual human being then I need to look up via Reddit or else results are just 98% AI-generated SEO garbage. Like I wish I was making that up but the majority of search results now are actual throwaway trash; pages upon pages of completely nonsensical generated rubbish.
what a surprise, yet another search engine related post where there's someone making promotion for Kagi in the comments.
If you want some good search results give me $5 and I can get you good search results. They are way better than Google. Just give me $5 I swear I'm good for it.
Its a US based company so its almost certain that your data gets sold as privacy is just a suggestion in the US.
The only reason I use Bing is to play around with its chat AI.
DuckDuckGo and Kagi are both hybrid search engines, they both have their own crawlers and combine their results with results from other sources.
Friends don't let friends use a web browser without uBlock origin
Ublock Origin does nothing to stop Google's sponsored results, or SEO optimised articles which are barely disguised ads :(
One of em installed it just because he saw me use it