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What search engine do you use that respects that type of search now? I’ve found that for years now Google just ignores the -pop or sometimes just ignores the “-“ and adds the thing I’m trying to avoid directly to the search query.
Yeah. Google started ignoring you more and more with it over the past like 5 years or so, but duckduckgo still uses it correctly.
kagi.
I hate monthly subscription anything, though. I don't want to pay $5 a month to search for things. Duckduckgo is fine, and it also works with -
I don't think Kagi are unfair charging a subscription, it means they have financial incentives which aren't mass cyberstalking like the adtech search providers. If a commercial service is free, you are almost certainly the real product.
I'm happy with their pricing and service level, while I prefer to self-host good luck self-hosting a search engine.
I don't think they're unfair at all for charging, and the price isn't outrageous or anything. It's just something I can do without having. I have other ways of ducking out of ads or being tracked.
That's totally fair.