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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 weeks ago (35 children)

I'm very happy with kagi at the moment. Just crossed one year using it as my main search engine last week and don't see why I would go back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I don't remember any specifics, but I think I heard there were some privacy concerns?

Then again, there seem to be privacy concerns about pretty much anything so might not be that bad...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never heard any issues with Privacy, but I've heard issues about them using Brave search Results as part of their results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

If i remember right, it wasn't just using brave, but including a referral id in brave searches. It wasn't intended, and they fixed it, so all good with me.

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