☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day agoTurns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1157arrow-down1imageTurns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company.lemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareR00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 day agoLots of other search engine options. Kagi seems good. I’m currently using duckduckgo and it’s roughly as good as google search at this point. I remember it being considered a joke when it first launched. God forbid, bing is also an option.
minus-squarethis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·23 hours agoif you self host, or if you can find an instance your trust, searxng is great imho.
minus-squareCapriciousDay@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI thought duckduckgo used bing’s API?
minus-squareR00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·24 hours agoIt does, it’s completely anonymised tho, and they pull in results from Yahoo and other sources (even Yandex). So while they do use the Bing API their results can be pretty vastly different from Bing’s.
minus-squareP03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoIs there a search engine that doesn’t leech off of some huge corporate API?
minus-squareMatt@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoBrave uses their own index. Qwant and Ecosia have partnered to build their own index as well.
Lots of other search engine options.
Kagi seems good.
I’m currently using duckduckgo and it’s roughly as good as google search at this point. I remember it being considered a joke when it first launched.
God forbid, bing is also an option.
if you self host, or if you can find an instance your trust, searxng is great imho.
I thought duckduckgo used bing’s API?
It does, it’s completely anonymised tho, and they pull in results from Yahoo and other sources (even Yandex). So while they do use the Bing API their results can be pretty vastly different from Bing’s.
Is there a search engine that doesn’t leech off of some huge corporate API?
Brave uses their own index. Qwant and Ecosia have partnered to build their own index as well.