alt Hacker NewsWhat google search alternative have you found? Im trying out ecosia, duckduckgo and brave search, but i find their search results even worse, so in the second query i tend to bang to google..
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Have you tried Kagi yet? It's pretty popular among HN folks, and I find it easily worth the price.
DDG is good enough that I've switched many year ago and never went back. Any time I use Google (!g) to repeat query (recently it's maybe a few times per year) it fails to show anything useful too, so I don't see any benefit to even check it lately.
I use ddg and haven't found better results from searching with google in a long time, but that might just be the kind of things I search for.
I've been using ddg for years now, and it's heen probably 2 years since I needed to use the "!g" escape hatch.
Very very happy with it.
Maybe have to pay for search? I am experimenting with paying Proton another $10/month for a paid lumo+ account. lumo+ is a private chat like ChatGPT that uses a strong Mistral model and also privacy-preserving web_search LLM tooling under the hood. For about a month I just use lumo+ with the web_search tool enabled. I may not do this forever, but for now I like just having one tool to use. Note: I still use gemini for technical work, but lumo+ for day to day chat and web search.
In the past I just use DuckDuckGo for most search, occasionally Google. That also worked well for me.
Kagi
have you tried Kagi?
Might want to try https://www.mojeek.com/ .
Google Search is over. There may not be a free alternative, it they've lost the arms war between phone number incrementing ad pages, AI spew, and rank hackers.