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Yeah. They did exactly that
Google have really enshittified their services, to the point where I've seriously thought about using Bing as my search engine instead.
I use duck duck go. IIRC, it's based on bing. It's better.
I also use perplexity though. It's very useful.
Check out Ecosia. It's the same thing, but your searches plant trees in a responsible manner.
I have. Duck duck is more reliable.
Will try again tho. I like trees.
I struggle to find very obvious things when using ddg, unfortunately
Feels bad
In my use case, my privacy is already compromised from using mainstream tech, also cached pages are kinda a big deal.
Oh indeed!
I use the web archives addon for Firefox. Love that guy. 1 click and you get access to 8 different places to view the current page on.
I already switched
Kagi. Not free, but the best.
Kagi is tempting, and for how much I use search I may want to genuinely use it.
Yeah, I've found their search results to be great. Additionally though, their manifesto really resonates with me. I'm happy to support them.