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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)
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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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[–] wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love duck duck go but theres one key thing I've been missing (or don't know how to do) with google you can just throw -word or -"a phrase" and it will ommit any result with them

[–] xc@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to blacklist the AI farm sites though

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you that? They've been getting on my last nerve.

[–] sandriver@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox has uBlacklist, might be on Chrome too.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like it only works with Google text search, and I don't use Google search.

[–] sandriver@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it with DuckDuckGo and startpage, it can be configured for a few search engines.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Oh wow! Ok! I'll see if it works for me, too. Thanks!