The title. Since Google and Bing started to use AI they do not seem to find most of the information that was usually easy to find.
Searxng, it’s meta search engine so you can use google, bing etc. without actually using them with your own information (and it wont use AI at all)
Find a public instance here: https://searx.space/
duckduckgo/startpage/searxng/kagi
If you are OK with Google search results then you could udm=14 it and remove all the AI crap.
Kagi is pretty awesome
Qwant (personal favorite), Mojeek (completely independent web crowler), StartPage (uses Google though so will still have garbage results), DuckDuckGo (from my experience not as “good” results, but is by far most privacy focused), and several dozen others.
Switched to Kagi a few months ago. I didn’t expect much, but I am so glad I tried
duckduckgo for me (which mostly uses bing/yahoo) and is my daily now, but there are several other viable ones.
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Most use AI for ranking and also most use Bing as a web index.
On my Firefox I have startpage
There are several choices in choosing a privacy-focused search engine, Brave is good, DuckDuckgo is good, Both are popular in terms of privacy.
But honestly I don’t like them much, I love google search much more, But Google is not private.
That’s why I love the product Leta from Mullvad.
It’s paid though, You gotta pay 5 dollars per month for their VPN, But IMO it’s really worth it, Their site will kinda make requests to google search API for you so your device will not contact google servers at all, I trully believe it’s am amazing product and don’t know why it’s not being mentioned much by people.
Give it a try if you want Google search results along with privacy.
Duckduckgo, if you want only traditional search results you can have that, if you want AI summaries you can have that also, its a decision left up to you to decide for yourself, which is the way it should be.
edit: y’all can be really irrational sometimes.
I just tried it out. Why do plenty of things I search result in a red message of “Sorry! No results were found” when results absolutely do exist.
If the source engines searx requests from provide AI results though (like Google is full of ai results no matter what settings you use), you’ll get AI through searx as well no?
Or how does it filter?
Public instances are not privacy friendly. It’s better to host an instance of searxng on your own.
As we are on /r/degoogle, a search engine might still be very influenced by Google. Startpage is essentially just a privacy proxy for Google, and Searxng has Google as an option, and can be disabled in the preferences.
As for just hiding your information to Google, these are good options.
Check this search engine map to roughly see where search engines get their results from: https://www.searchenginemap.com
Startpage should be the first search engine of choice, imo.
Kahn I think is about to
DuckDuckGo uses ai now