this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Google doesn't fucking work anymore. We're back to directly asking people being both the fastest and most reliable way to get information.
There was a tiny window when you could actually get good search results with a natural language question, but that's long gone and the "AI" features have only made it worse.
True, but that is by choice. kagi.com has an agreement to use Google's API directly and they have much better search results than Google itself.
Startpage is still decent