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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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[-] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Low effort websites made easier by LLM generated text. It’s not new, just made easier with the ubiquity of LLM tools. Think of it as the latest generation of spam websites 🙃

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago

Ah I see. Junk ‘news’ and other regurgitated blah. Yeah, I’d guess any free search engine will probably be bloated with that. Not to mention that it’s google, bing, and orange bing. Not a ton of crawlers out there indexing everything is there?

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The only other (not absolutely tiny) one I'm aware of is brave, but it has its own issues

[-] anothermember@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ironically one of DDG's early selling points, before they fully jumped on the privacy bandwagon, was that they would filter out results for low-effort content farms (this was pre-LLM stuff).

I had used DDG since almost the beginning and it was one of the things I was originally sold on. It's difficult to find a source for it now but I did find this: https://web.archive.org/web/20110608072253/https://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=377&bpid=25532

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