• rastilin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Google’s becoming pretty terrible anyway, it only seems to return pages that are selling things. I’ve switched to Kagi at this point and it seems to work better, it’s subscription only, but you know you’re the one paying for it and that means that you’re the end customer.

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        1 year ago

        Duck duck go is practically broken. I switched to startpage which worked alright until I got a VPN, then I just started using bing with better results. So it is somehow worse than bing even. Duck ignores my quotes and minuses and such things.

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        1 year ago

        New Kagi user here too, been very happy so far. Though it turns out I do a lot of searching and blew through the 300 searches in the $5 plan in like 2 weeks…

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          Make an effort to use bangs and I bet you’ll stay under the limit. Edit: bang searches don’t count towards the limit

          Knowing I wanted a result from a certain site but using the search engine to get there was a (bad) habit I brought over from Google.

          !imdb barbie

          !w mattel

          There’s even custom bangs, which is something DDG doesn’t give you: !libgen some book

        • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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          I just signed up with them, too. They were able to get me a link to the age of a small, nondescript lava flow near my town on the third hit. (5000 years old! A youngster!) All the other search engines gave me unrelated crap.

          I have a hard stop set up for when I hit $10, so I’ll switch tiers if it comes to that. 😅

          I don’t necessarily like paying for search, but I couldn’t take ad-driven search any longer. Big waste of time getting through the chaff.