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just realized whoogle is dead now (lemmy.today)
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google search results are still kind of useful especially for non-english language queries, anyone knows a good alternative?

searxng also doesn't really seem to work these days..

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[–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

recently saw this article here, i'm not sure if ecosia is a good solution now. their results seem mostly identical to ddg/bing too though it's occasionally better than them for some reason

qwant is good, but they geoblock certain countries including mine since 2023 or so. having to use proxy/vpn for just searching really sucks

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    their results seem mostly identical to ddg/bing too though it's occasionally better than them for some reason

    I believe Ecosia uses either Google or Bing search indexes depending on the region, but they are working on an independent index with Qwant that will hopefully be a good alternative! If you live in France, it's already bring trialled!

    But yeah, Ecosia is like any search engine and there is bit of greenwashing with LLMs and all. However, they are a non-profit with transparent earnings reports, and that makes them better than Google, Bing, DDG, etc. for me.

    they geoblock certain countries including mine since 2023 or so

    Dang, that sucks.

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