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Looking for new search engine (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 month ago by Paradachshund@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I've been using duckduckgo for years now with no issues, but today I opened it and realized there were no longer any search results before scrolling. It was all ads/info cards. So I guess I'm looking for a replacement. Any suggestions?

Related: anyone know if there's a way in the Adnauseum Firefox extension to hide ads on a specific trusted site? I like their goal of not punishing ads following the do not track standard, but DDG has crossed a threshold and I now want to blacklist them specifically.

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[-] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 2 points 1 month ago

I'm partial to ecosia.org myself. Search while helping to plant more trees!

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do wonder how they get the money to plant these trees, hmm...

edit: oh, look at that! Even ecosia started getting into AI. Truly impossible for search engines not to get into AI territory these days, funny right? Even kagi did.

[-] BigDotNet@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Presearch.com

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

This one gives crypto vibes. They talk about earning tokens for using but don't explain what they do.

[-] BigDotNet@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can use it WO turn on the crypto stuff, I have like 2 years using presearch and it's a pretty good search engine.

AFAIK it's a decentralized search engine and they operate in a crypto system.

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Ah OK gotcha

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I use DDG but caveat emptor it's using Bing as a backend. I find it is very good at certain things google censors like finding streams of obscure films though.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I use Qwant, a French search engine. Much better.

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