Would recommend trying SearXNG

Paraphrased from Wikipedia:

SearxNG is a free and open-source metasearch engine that provides agggregated search results, available under AGPL-3.0, with the aim of protecting its users privacy.

• SearXNG Wikipedia Article
• SearXNG Github Repo

u block optional list under "annoyances"

https://duckduckgo.com/

Free, does not take your data, you can turn the ai thing on and off

We all need to stop giving them money, that means data. We gotta get everyone we know to stop too.

I disabled the Google app to get rid of the annoying android ai powered "circle to search". Now when I accidentally hold the home button, it says "To use Circle to Search, first enable the Google app".

Why can't I rebind that in stock android?

Behold, an ancient relic from an earlier age of the interwebs: http://blackle.com

Originally intended to cut power usage in the days of CRT monitors, it continues to deliver old-style google results for reasons unknown

Though Google is probably still tracking you through it.

I been trying my darndest to survive google changes to android a 158 days from now (https://keepandroidopen.org/) I run eOs (https://e.foundation/e-os/) on my phone now. Hope it will help, but I dunno if its gonna be enough.

https://docs.searxng.org/

https://metager.org does the trick

Is google still provides the best results and meets your needs best there are extensions that remove the ai overview :)

Click on "Web" (or add &udm=14 to the URL), save as new search engine / bookmark.

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

I don't get Firefox at work, and the other day Chrome popped open a new tab on it's own telling me to try out Gemini. I asked Gemini why this new tab had opened pushing Gemini on me when I didn't ask it to, and it told me the most likely reason was that my computer is infected with a virus.

Not wrong I guess?

Or you could just... you know... not use Google.

With uBlock Origin

I like: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

When making your search, type "-ai" at the end. For example:

How tall is the Eiffel tower -ai

You're welcome.

I kept accidentally summoning the AI assistant on my mom's tablet so I told it to fuck off. It was like "words can hurt!" So I told it to fuck off again.

In the past, I'd sometimes use Google for image reverse search, when the other engines didn't turn up anything. Since they integrated that AI overview, that's basically broken, as it only shows relevant results for maybe 10% of my queries.

I don't know how they managed to break that, like I'm not on the AI overview tab. I just want the functionality they supported for the past 10+ years.

Just udm14?

For anyone still using Google: is there actually some easter egg for when you try to do that or something?

https://tenbluelinks.org/ has a good setup to make a non AI version of Google your browser's default search
Of course that's assuming you specifically want to such with Google

Firefox has tons of extensions to remove/hide/block AI overview in Google searches. Just search "Google AI" on their extensions page and you'll get nearly a dozen extensions to choose from.

Turning off google AI overview is aimple;: stop using google

Keep asking it questions until it doesn't want to answer you anymore because you cost so much money /s

Is there a browser plugin to constantly query their AI in the background? Wasting their power might send a message.

https://docs.searxng.org/

I add a query parameter to go to web search, rather than the default search, so no slop here

The chatbot has history. So it's just trying to remove the Nvidia rtx5090 from her throat.