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Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (13 children)

What do you suggest? Because even Mozilla uses Google for its search.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Duck duck?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Which is just bing with a few extra editorial changes that aren't really transparent.

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

    What do you use?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Only recently started using searngx. I would love to see more search engines implement their own indexing and ranking, instead of relying on other engines.

    But I am aware that making a good search engine is hard. Even with all their flaws, google and Bing still have the best results, which is why most other engines rely on their results.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Kagi... It's so good you forget Google.

    And what do you mean "even mozilla"... There are money deals between these Google and mozilla. Google pays mozilla a lot of money to set Google as default search.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    It's a paid service, so it'd be a bad default for a web browser. Not saying it's a bad search engine; saying that it's a bad search engine default for the every day folk who just installed a web browser.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you don't mind having to occasionally refresh the page due to search engine timeout, a public Searxng metasearch engine. I use one just to straight up bypass having to go to any specific search engine. Also allows me to see results from both gøøg|e and b*ng without having to go to either.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I know Lemmy likes to hate on AI, but my default search engine is http://perplexity.ai and it’s great

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    According to Perplexity, that's just Google Search with some OpenAI sprinkled on top... So yeah, I'm gonna hate on it lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    What I like about it is that it's trained on lots of different sources (including, but not limited to Google, and Bing search results). It then strips out the ads, SEO blog spam, and other nonsense and tries to return the most relevant info for my query. It is leagues better than pure Google. Also, it uses its own LLM unrelated to OpenAI.

    A bit unfortunate that I got downvoted for having an opinion and sharing it.

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