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I wouldn’t know because I mainly use DuckDuckGo and haven’t had a reason to use Google in a long time.
DuckDuckGo is just Microslop Bing with a different front-end.
Isn't every alternative search engine just bing or google in the background?
Not all, but mostly, yes: https://hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr/116609141864889111
Yeah, whatever bias and censorship Micro$lop’s search index has, except supposedly without the tracking. It’s a step up from Google and Bing, but not the perfect solution.
What do you recommend?
If you live in Europe, the French search engine Qwant is great.
yacy is an interesting alternative if you self host.
Kagi. It does work and they are making anti AI a priority.
"Kagi Assistant
Access multiple AI models without being tracked. Use the power of different LLMs, all grounded by Kagi search results, while keeping your prompts and data private."
I mean it's pro-privacy, but that's hardly anti-AI.
I recommend DDG as the first line, and kagi free tier if you can't find it on DDG.
I, as of yet, haven't really explored any alternatives, but I see a lot of others mentioned in the comments here.
Not using meta search engines and going directly to the sites with the info and searching them for instance.
Ah yes, good thing I kept a rolodex of websites for every useful website that I might need.
Can you search your rolodex for "caddy tls configuration" for me?
https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/tls
Thanks fri... wait, you're not who I replied to. Do you have your own rolodex of websites?
No but I searched on stack overflow and found the link to the official documentation 😀
Don’t be daft. You don’t need to know more than the dozen you already know. Wikimedia, stack overflow, Reddit and whatnot. For everything else you can still use a meta search engine.
So your suggesting to stop using meta search engines unless you need meta search engines?
Exactly. My recommendation is to rely less on metasearch engines.