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It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

no mention of kagi yet? Son, I am disappoint.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I only heard of Kagi in lemmy, very intrigued, however as I lived in third-world country, the price plan is unfeasible for me to consider.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You get the first hundred a month for free.

Maybe you could ration it for when you need high-quality searches?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

You get the first hundred a month for free

Thats more rational, I thought it was just the first hundred searches were free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They are high thinking people will pay $5/mo for search AND being limited to 300 searches/mo. I avoid subscriptions at all cost, so if I were ever to consider paying for search it would need to be a completely forgettable number like .99/mo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you are not paying for it you are not the customer but the product.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Man I sure love Microsoft, they don't treat me like a product since I pay for all their services and Windows, unlike that filth Linux which is full of data harvesting CIA spyware and ads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you are still paying for search, you just don't know it (yet).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

It's not lost on me, I get it, don't pretend like you're the only one who understands how advertising works on the Internet. That's the agreement with anything you don't directly pay for. The fee that Kago is asking for is unreasonable in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Isn't there that whole controversy with kagi going on about ~~transphobia~~ homophobia stuff?

Edit: apparently it was homophobia not transphobia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Kagi has recently started getting part of its search results from Brave's search index. That's literally all there is to it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ah, cancel culture at its best, I won't be part of it. I took one look at these people, and when I see them cry racism over a completely benign website I know I should just ignore them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm really happy with Kagi. The fact that I can blacklist certain domains from showing up in search results is chef's kiss.

Back when I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, I found myself occasionally using the !g bang to fall back to Google results. So far I haven't felt the need once in Kagi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'm also very happy with kagi. I get search results with no fluff to sort through or scroll past every time I search. It's such a breath of fresh air.

Kagi is also doing some interesting things with search and many, many things that let you customize how the results are presented to you.

Also, intesrtingly, kagi is growing rapidly and as yet they have spent literally zero dollars on advertisements. Purely word of mouth.