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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] mioko@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are there any quality alternatives to Google? I use DuckDuckGo, but i don't feel that the results are much better - if i remember correctly DDG uses Bing beneath the surface.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Kagi:

https://kagi.com/

You gotta pay for it, but I've found it worth paying for so far.

[–] SMT42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure i like metered searches... and $25/month seems steep for unlimited.

But i will try this out, i would gladly pay for actually good search. Maybe keep google for simple web navigation then the $5 tier kagi for more nuanced search, should keep under the 300 search limit with that approach

[–] alejandro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use Kagi and never pay more than $10/mo even though I use it a lot. I think most people don’t know how much they search in a month, so the pricing can be confusing.

I have the early adopter pro plan, which gives me extra searches (1500 instead of 1000), but for reference, I averaged 1044 searches/mo over the past 6 months (not counting this month). So if I had the standard pro plan, I’d have paid $10.66 per month on average.

The unlimited plan seems excessive to me, unless you’re playing with the API or something like that.