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Google Search as you know it is over - but there are alternatives (see post) (techcrunch.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47107360

Google is making its Search more centred around AI, turning it into a conversation.

Besides being a worse experience, the websites from which it sources its information are losing all traffic and recognition.

Recommend a list of alternatives:

  • Kagi - Paid but better experience than Google
  • Ecosia - Similar experience while supporting a good cause
  • Qwant - Increasingly unique results and building a EU-first index
  • DuckDuckGo - Privacy-focused search, but quality of results may vary

More options: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/search-engine/

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The other factor is companies, interests, paying the Google and their ilk to not include things in search results. And only include what they choose as an alternative.

Then you might have different interests gaming the search results to bury something they don't like.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is only amplified by LLMs

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 1 hour ago

At the moment, I do find that the LLMs bring me more of what I want to see than the basic search engine used to a few years back... 15-20 years ago the basic search engine seemed to be much better then slowly deteriorated from there.

I have confidence, they'll sell this version to the highest bidder faster than they did the last one, then it will be just as bad as listening to radio advertisements as a way to find a good local restaurant to eat at...