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Is there any good, free search engine left? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by superkret@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don't respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I'm not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

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[–] oozynozh@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I use Qwant sometimes but it's sourced from Bing. Searx is better if you can self-host. Kagi is better if you can afford to pay (but you asked for free).

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't Kagi offer X amount of free searches per month before you pay?

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

No. They have a trial of 100 one-time searches, but that's it.

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