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Help me pick a search engine (lemmy.world)
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Qwant Vs Kagi Vs Ecosia

I have been using Qwant for some time, but I am not quite happy with it. Both the quality of the search results, and the lack of a paid option to get rid of advertisement are annoying to me.

I used to have Kagi as my main search engine, and liked it quite a lot. I know that a few people have personal issues with the owner, based on some blog post that gets shared every time, but my own reason for not using it currently, is because it is based in the US. I don't know if I am willing to compromise on that for the moment, but I do feel like I was getting a better experience using that.

I haven't used Ecosia for some time, and might give it a try, but I am still concerned about the ads. It's not that I fear that they track my searches, the same way Google did, but I just don't like ads. I don't mind paying but as far as I know Ecosia still does not allow for paid plans to avoid the ads.

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[–] petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

That's the exact issue I was talking about, and the last comment I read when I last checked was the one right a one what you linked lol.

I tried 4get before and the catches were extremely 4chan cringe, kind of turned me off it, but I'll have to try it again if they have a fix.

It's nice to see the searxng atleast has a possible temp work around that looks like it will be merged soon.

Thanks for the helpful info!