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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee to c/foss

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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)

been using kagi for some weeks and so far I am satisfied. It has a subscription cost after 300 searches though. But I guess getting rid of advertisements and tracking has a price

[–] lori@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My problem with Kagi is that they're still running at a loss and they think AI will be their savior.

And their AI currently gives extremely wrong information but the devs think that's fine because the point of their AI is to be fast not accurate.

I liked it as a search engine but at this point I can't see it surviving. If they raised the prices to where they lost a lot of customers and still can't get to positive numbers they aren't going to fix it by having AI give you wrong answers.

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 2 points 1 year ago

Do you have any sources for this info. Didn't get the vibe that they are leaning on AI that heavily. Never seen anything about it actually

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