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Yeah. They did exactly that

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Google have really enshittified their services, to the point where I've seriously thought about using Bing as my search engine instead.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I use duck duck go. IIRC, it's based on bing. It's better.

I also use perplexity though. It's very useful.

[–] WitchHazel@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I struggle to find very obvious things when using ddg, unfortunately
Feels bad

[–] Bob@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Check out Ecosia. It's the same thing, but your searches plant trees in a responsible manner.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

I have. Duck duck is more reliable.

Will try again tho. I like trees.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my use case, my privacy is already compromised from using mainstream tech, also cached pages are kinda a big deal.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

Oh indeed!

I use the web archives addon for Firefox. Love that guy. 1 click and you get access to 8 different places to view the current page on.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kagi. Not free, but the best.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kagi is tempting, and for how much I use search I may want to genuinely use it.

Yeah, I've found their search results to be great. Additionally though, their manifesto really resonates with me. I'm happy to support them.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I already switched