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Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by MTK@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I suspect that this is the direct result of AI generated content just overwhelming any real content.

I tried ddg, google, bing, quant, and none of them really help me find information I want these days.

Perplexity seems to work but I don't like the idea of AI giving me "facts" since they are mostly based on other AI posts

ETA: someone suggested SearXNG and after using it a bit it seems to be much better compared to ddg and the rest.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

oh, good tip. I didn't know about that.

you tack !g to the end of whatever the resulting search URL is?

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Can be anywhere in the search.

"cute dogs !g" "!g cute dogs" "cute !g dogs"

Those all work the same, though clearly one is more cursed than the others. They have those for a bunch of other sites as well, for example if you want to search YouTube specifically/directly you can use !yt but I can't kick the habit of just going to those sites first and then searching directly on there.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yes DDG Bangs are a great fast way of getting around the web. Works really well with LibRedirect. Here's a Full List of DDG Bangs.