Bob to [email protected]English • 4 months agoRemember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit?message-square83fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1383arrow-down1message-squareRemember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit?Bob to [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square83fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•4 months agoGoogle have really enshittified their services, to the point where I’ve seriously thought about using Bing as my search engine instead.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•edit-24 months agoI use duck duck go. IIRC, it’s based on bing. It’s better. I also use perplexity though. It’s very useful.
minus-squareBobOPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoCheck out Ecosia. It’s the same thing, but your searches plant trees in a responsible manner.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoI have. Duck duck is more reliable. Will try again tho. I like trees.
minus-squareGaia [She/Her]linkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoI struggle to find very obvious things when using ddg, unfortunately Feels bad
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoIn my use case, my privacy is already compromised from using mainstream tech, also cached pages are kinda a big deal.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoOh indeed! I use the web archives addon for Firefox. Love that guy. 1 click and you get access to 8 different places to view the current page on.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoKagi is tempting, and for how much I use search I may want to genuinely use it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoYeah, I’ve found their search results to be great. Additionally though, their manifesto really resonates with me. I’m happy to support them.
Google have really enshittified their services, to the point where I’ve seriously thought about using Bing as my search engine instead.
I use duck duck go. IIRC, it’s based on bing. It’s better.
I also use perplexity though. It’s very useful.
Check out Ecosia. It’s the same thing, but your searches plant trees in a responsible manner.
I have. Duck duck is more reliable.
Will try again tho. I like trees.
I struggle to find very obvious things when using ddg, unfortunately
Feels bad
In my use case, my privacy is already compromised from using mainstream tech, also cached pages are kinda a big deal.
Oh indeed!
I use the web archives addon for Firefox. Love that guy. 1 click and you get access to 8 different places to view the current page on.
Kagi. Not free, but the best.
Kagi is tempting, and for how much I use search I may want to genuinely use it.
Yeah, I’ve found their search results to be great. Additionally though, their manifesto really resonates with me. I’m happy to support them.
I already switched