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Is there any good, free search engine left? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by superkret@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don't respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I'm not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

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[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If it wasn't something I use every day and even for work, I wouldn't bother. But yeah, Kagi result are definitely better. Being able to rate sites high/lower in results and blocking some all together really has helped filter out the nonsense that a lot of search engines give