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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Have you tried https://duckduckgo.com/ . I've used them a very long time. I do not use Google search.

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[–] RalphWolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I like Andisearch.com

[–] odium@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe try stract, try out the different optics it has. My favorite is the discussions optic. Lots of lemmy/kbin results with that. Hacker news optic might be closer to what you're looking for.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use www.startpage.com It's Google without the trackers. Probably not really what you're looking for but is does the job really well.

[–] lunicoDee@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It doesnt work with VNP and Tor, I'd choose Whoogle or LibreX as Google frontends, you can selfhost them and they're open source

[–] hruzgar@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

brave search

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