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Google is losing it (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by kokesh@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (22 children)

I stopped using Google years ago. I started using Bing but had to stop that as it would divert me to MSN to sign in when clicking a link for a news article. Like a news article for The Independent or The Times or any other.

I then started using DuckDuckGo which is powered by Bing, but found it wasn’t great at many searches.

I now use Arc Search most of the time and click browse for me to get the information I want without the bullshit. Search is essentially dead due to greed.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Startpage and Qwant are the best alternatives IMO.
https://www.qwant.com/
https://www.startpage.com/

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I used Qwant for a few days and then it popped up a modal dialog asking me to turn off my ad-blocker. Never used it again after that.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Funny I've never seen that, but I switch around from time to time. Because none are perfect unfortunately.

[–] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

kagi is the best but it will cost you $10 a month. It's been worth it to me, but probably not to everyone.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Interesting concept, but it's a bit expensive IMO, considering the huge amount of "free" options.

The pricing is only in USD without taxes. Listing the price excluding tax is illegal here (Denmark and I think the rest of EU), so apparently not a service meant for use outside USA.
Ad free is not a problem for me, i use Firefox with µBlock Origin.

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