• whodatdair@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I need to find a search engine that shows me these again, every time I search anything now it’s like an excited crack head trying to get me to buy literally anything from them

    Google has passed from great to nearly useless

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      9 months ago

      Then don’t use Google. Duckduckgo is a go-to free alternative. Or pay for Kagi, which feels as good as old google, but with the ability to customize your rankings for domains.

      • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        DDG has been going downhill for me as of late, they sources results from Bing and it seems Microsoft has prioritized their sources first. The worst is news because instead of primary sources it will usually show a mirrored copy hosted by Msft instead.

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      9 months ago

      Kagi is very very nice but at $10 a month it is too expensive for my uses. DuckDuckGo is my alternative when my Kagi subscription of one month runs out.

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        9 months ago

        Try perplexity.ai. it has a paid and free tier. The free tier is good enough for most queries. You just don’t have access to the other models. I think the copilot works for 5 queries and refreshes every couple hours I think. It works very well.

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          9 months ago

          Do you mind me asking, do you pay for the premium? If so do you find it more accurate?

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            Sorry, I didn’t see the reply. I do pay for premium. I don’t think it’s more accurate, it just gives you more copilot (which is great) and you can switch models, with access to ChatGPT4 and Claude, for instance. Also more file uploads, and I think more options in the Library with custom instructions.