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What's your opinion? Does google really "not work" anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it's own way i feel...

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[–] B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It works but it definitely censors a lot pf stuff I feel so I use Yandex sometimes.

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[–] Sentinian@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google works and it doesn't. I use Duckduckgo, and in general it works decent. Both suck and so does brave search so I don't really have many options that I know of. I always end up searching with reddit to get any real result, as its always the same clickbaity shifty sites.

The sad part is, Google ends up being the best of all the shittyness, because whenever I search some local none of the other engines know what to do. The number of times I have to switch to Google for a address is sad.

[–] FixedFun@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo has a button to switch to my country yet it does nothing at all...

[–] djquadratic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After some browsing I found another option - whoogle which seems to be a self-hosted search engine? I didn't look into it too much but this also seems very interesting

You can also check out https://github.com/hnhx/librex I've used one of the listed sites several times and it's been acceptable.

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