The Mediocrity of Modern Google.
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I've tried SearX and stayed there. And it costs me a whole 0€ per month. 10€/month for a search engine is insane.
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People keep pushing Kagi. You get 100 free searches to try it. So far I haven't had a search result from Google thats so bad I need to turn to another search engine, its just a poor user experience.
I tried to use Startpage and it almost did the trick. It was text search results parsed from google without any of the other crap that shows up in search results these days. However one critical tool was missing - The forums search category. They have other categories like images, news, shopping, etc. I heavily use forum searches when viewing search results and not having it was an instant deal breaker.
When replacing big services you're not going to find a single solution. You will probably find several smaller solutions that all specialize in one or two things.
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I only use SearXNG because it loads faster than DDG for me. It parses very very fast on my low end pc, and thats what I wish.
Yeah, that's the thing about Sear. You can customise it how you want and that's it. No need to let some corpo be in control of what and how you see your results.
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I've tried SearX and stayed there. And it costs me a whole 0€ per month. 10€/month for a search engine is insane.
It's gonna stay free forever, you're totally not externalizing those costs to someone else. You can't break the laws of thermodynamics
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It's gonna stay free forever, you're totally not externalizing those costs to someone else. You can't break the laws of thermodynamics
Do you know how SearXNG works? It literally pulls search results from whatever other SEs you define it should pull from. You just get to reap the perks of all engines, without having to deal with their antagonistic design.
Who pays for all of it in the end? The people who still want to use Google's service and feed their all-reaching tentacles. But that is their choice.
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Do you know how SearXNG works? It literally pulls search results from whatever other SEs you define it should pull from. You just get to reap the perks of all engines, without having to deal with their antagonistic design.
Who pays for all of it in the end? The people who still want to use Google's service and feed their all-reaching tentacles. But that is their choice.
Google results are dog trash. Bing results are dog trash.
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I take it that means you feel it’s worth the cost? I have a hard time since search is something I’ve been so used to being free
For me, yes, but thats because im a heavy search engine user and like the customization features. We pay for the duo plan for both my husband and I. My husband doesnt use it much, maybe a handful of searches a week, but me on the otherhand I far exceed the free search limit with how often I search for things. I also love having the ability to block, lower, or raise a specific site in my results. Very satisfying to open up a shit site, see its shit, and then block it from ever appearing in my search results again.
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Google results are dog trash. Bing results are dog trash.
I don't lose sleep over having to add "reddit" or "forum" at the end of my search query.
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These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality and her romanticized dreams of escape. That is Google in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Google is today's IBM.
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This may be a helpful graphic when deciding on a search engine
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