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Which search engine should I use? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have used SearXNG for a while, but I switched to LibreX after the search engine started glitching. Recently, though, LibreX has stopped returning any results. I am currently on Mojeek, but the results aren't that great.

I have also tried Qwant, but I wasn't too keen on it. Startpage will be impractical, as I use a VPN and this engine often blocks me because of it. I don't want to use Brave Search for a number of reasons. MetaGer has too many important features behind its paywall. I'm not sure about DuckDuckGo, but I could use it if there was no other option.

Any suggestions, or am I being too picky?

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[–] PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A random thought

Do we really want search engines ?

Or, do we want AI to tell us the answers to our questions?

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We want search engines. GPT-3.5 has a knowledge cutoff in 2021, so I only really use it for software recommendations and text/code formatting.

[–] PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I am surprised that we wouldn’t prefer better AI.

Search engines today are geared to point us to a site where we then search again for our answer.

I am now just realizing I’d rather get a range of answers.

I wonder if that’s where we end up, a massive “wikipedia” of online nuggets of varying degrees of preferential truthiness….

[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Considering how often chatGPT gives complete and utter bs answers, I think I'd rather find the info on my own.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Let me go ask chatgbt for the answer, hold on one second.