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just realized whoogle is dead now (lemmy.today)
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google search results are still kind of useful especially for non-english language queries, anyone knows a good alternative?

searxng also doesn't really seem to work these days..

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

It’s not much of a loss because google search results are shit anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    What's your choice search engine?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Kagi

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'll check it out. Any opinion of it over something like duckduckgo?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    It usually has better results. The features alone, however, put it above DDG.

    Rankings aren't static. You can block a site, pin it to the top of results, or just derank/promote it.

    Want to redirect a domain? You can do that.

    Want to see specific results? Like PDFs only, or maybe just small web, educational, news stories, forums, or whatever? Use a lens!

    Love AI summaries? You can use them! Hate AI summaries? Don't worry, they're off by default and require you to press the small "Summarize" button.

    You probably understand bangs, right? Using !w will search Wikipedia. You probably also know that some sites, such as Reddit, have shit results so using !r would be worthless. Kagi supports bangs but also has what they call "snaps" - if you type @w, it will be replaced with site:wikipedia.com.

    Oh, yeah, one more thing. No ads. There are no risks of misaligned interests between you, Kagi, and their advertisers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I like lens feature a lot. I also use their privacy pass feature quite a bit. Overall there are a lot of really nice features and search results as good or better than Google. DDG uses bing which is junk IMO

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Mostly Qwant, occasionally ddg, mojeek and others, including my own instance of SearxNG (google doesn’t respond to it most of the time).

    Thanks to enshittification of google, there is not much difference between it and other search engines so being unable to use it via alternative frontends doesn’t make that much of a dofferencd.

    I should probably use searxng more often…

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