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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Kagi is really good

You need to pay for it but the free search allowance is enough for me.

[–] SamVimes@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By free search allowance, do you mean the one time trial of 100, the 300 per month if you're paying $5, or something else?

[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I mean the initial 100... it lasted a long time, for me

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 1 year ago

You get a one time 100 searches.

[–] silentdanni@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Kagi is the only one that consistently gives me much better results than google. The fact that it's not riddled with ads on the first page was a big incentive for me to give them some cash. It actually improved my productivity at work a whole lot. This actually made me think how shitty google has become when I was preferring results given by an error prone AI compared to just searching for it. Now with Kagi, I can actually find the stuff I'm looking for and only use AI in case I can't find it there for some reason. Totally worth the monthly subscription for me.

[–] tiago@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I hit the threshold in a week, but it was because I got engaging results.

Ideal search engine for falling into unexpected rabbit holes. It's scratches the itch of really exploring the web.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 1 year ago

I've also become a big fan. Love being able to modify the ranking of different sites or exclude them entirely.