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Don’t Be It (lemmy.world)
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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No, it's not just you. DDG hasn't been very good in my recent experience. I bit the bullet and gave Kagi a try and it's been excellent. It's what I recommend now.

It's not free, but I'll gladly pay to ensure that I'm the customer being tailored to instead of the product being sold.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Yeah initially it felt silly to pay for a search engine, but I gave kagi a try and really like it. I could immediately turn off all ai shit. I can block websites that are ai trash or that I just plain don't like or I can just down rank a website so I'll see other results first. For example, I have the Minecraft fandom website downranked but not blocked so that if I'm searching for something that isn't documented on the Minecraft wiki then the fandom page will still pop up, it just won't be the top result ever

    Also, I'm on the basic 300 searches a month and I've never hit the max despite feeling like I search a lot between my phone and computer

    Edit: there's also a little indicator next to websites that have a lot of trackers and ads so you can avoid or block those sites if you want

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I could immediately turn off all ai shit.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the AI stuff specifically opt-in, not simply easily opt-out as you describe? I'm a (happy) paid subscriber and AI results only occur if I invoke it with the "?" at the end of the search.

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