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    Why the fuck are you defending google so hard lmao.

    Ah yes, when I said "use a different search engine" as a solution to Google having issues I'm certainly defending Google! What an endorsement right? "Use a completely different service" is free publicity for Google!

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    Are you actually serious.

    Very serious, doctors surgically removed my ability to be silly. But on a different note, if you think every search engine ever gives worse results than ChatGPT, I'm afraid the heavy LLM usage already rotted parts of your brain. I'm sorry for the bad news.

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    I think you missed a part of their comment:

    Block ads and use a different search engine?

    Both Ecosia and DuckDuckGo have served me pretty well. Kagi also seems somewhat interesting.
    Ecosia is working with Qwant on their own index, the first version of which has already gone online I believe. So they're no longer exclusively relying on Bing/Google for their back-end.

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    The CEO of brave, Brendan Eich, is opposed to same-sex marriage.
    They, too, are working on their own index, but I cannot support that company and would suggest you seek alternatives.

    And, though Ecosia/DDG don't always show what I want, it's very easy to add a !g to my already existing query and get put through to google. Which is rare, mind you, but comes in handy every so often. Does that mean it sometimes takes a *bit* of effort to get the result I'm after? Yeah, but that is a sacrifice I'm happy to make when it comes to supporting alternatives.

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