I started noticing ddg search with the “” operator is wonky. Also ecosia seems to have a lot of sponsored results?
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plutopos@lemmy.zip 10 hours agoI have indeed noticed Google (and Google-based search engines like Startpage) has got worse in the past months. Even DuckDuckGo is better know (which as a long time ddg user is wild)
k0e3@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Honestly ddg has also gotten worse (as it’s bing in a condom), it’s just that Google has shit itself even harder
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Kagi is a paid service and feels weird to pay for a search engine, but things have felt so much better since I tried them out months ago.
TheMadCodger@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I don’t know if you use their Assistant, but you can limit it to specific sources. The first option after the entire web is the fediverse. They also have the small web, which just shows you things made by actual humans, not something trying to sell you something.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 9 hours ago
I pay for Metager and i do really recommend it. You pay a pittance per search while being free of the crap that infests the net. Kagi comes with it’s own set of issues.
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I’ll look into Metager as this is the first I’ve heard of it.
What set of issues do you see with Kagi? It’s the best I’ve encountered as of late, but if there’s more I should consider; I’d like to learn.