cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47107360
Google is making its Search more centred around AI, turning it into a conversation.
Besides being a worse experience, the websites from which it sources its information are losing all traffic and recognition.
Recommend a list of alternatives:
- Kagi - Paid but better experience than Google
- Ecosia - Similar experience while supporting a good cause
- Qwant - Increasingly unique results and building a EU-first index
- DuckDuckGo - Privacy-focused search, but quality of results may vary
More options: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/search-engine/
Peace be with you. 🌹So, I’ve been doing without Google for over a year now and use Mojeek. It takes some getting used to, and isn’t as good as well-known search engines, but it’s 100% free from Google and Bing. It has is own crawler and index.
For a few months I’ve been using local instances of searxng. I’ve got it running on my laptop and on Termux on my phone. It’s been fine for me. It’s not always the quickest, but I’m ok with it.
A companion read to this article, where the blogger went to the same conference, “google I/O”, and then went on the one dedicated to advertisers (same place, just de day after), “Marketing Live”. Hang on to something solid, it’s bad. Like, really.
