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DuckDuckGo has options to turn off their AI summary, hide AI-generated images, and filter your searches by date. Setting a date range before popularization of AI gives better results.
StartPage is another decent search engine option. I’ve also heard positive things about Kagi (paid) and SearXNG although I haven’t used these myself.
I wonder how long we can keep up the whole pre-AI date trick. Guess it depends on what you're searching for.
How do you do the date range filtering? When I try it with DuckDuckGo it never works
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/dates
presumably it relies on the pages to accurately report their own dates.
The SEO referral blog scum are what I believe OP is talking about. The reason I get to page 3 before finding anything useful.
Yep, this happened over the past few months or so to DDG. Nearly every result is AI-generated blogspam. Its almost unusable now.
Yeah it's maddening. I'm trying out Kagi and so far it seems to be pretty good