Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don’t respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I’m not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

  • oozynozh@lemm.ee
    11·
    2 months ago

    I use Qwant sometimes but it’s sourced from Bing. Searx is better if you can self-host. Kagi is better if you can afford to pay (but you asked for free).

    • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
      2·
      2 months ago

      There’s also Startpage, also pretty good. That has search results from Google and a bit of Bing though, so if that’s a dealbreaker, then yeah.

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      Doesn’t Kagi offer X amount of free searches per month before you pay?

      • festusEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        No. They have a trial of 100 one-time searches, but that’s it.