After fully reading through this I have decided to switch to DuckDuckGo. Not because I think their results are better - they aren’t that much better to be honest - but because I no longer want to support Google’s practices by using them.
We really - and urgently - need something that can provide genuinely good web search results again. And preferably, it should come from a non-profit organisation that open-sources their search indexes as well.
The algorithms can remain closed-source - letting people know how it works is just inviting SEO abusers to openly game and hijack it - but the index itself should be available for anyone to build their own search engine upon if they want to.
@fauli1221 Yeah, this was why I was also reluctant to use DuckDuckGo as well. But then again basically every major search engine is shoving AI bullshit into them nowadays, so unless someone else comes along with a good, AI-free and open alternative I will have to settle for DuckDuckGo for now.
Bing is even worse in this regard, and its search results have always been even wonkier as well. Plus it forces safe search to be locked on for my region for some idiotic reason too.
@fauli1221 Like, yeah, I might not like seeing NSFW in my search results all the time, but given how the filters often catch completely SFW or just mildly suggestive pics as NSFW, I often have to leave that setting off just in case I’m missing something the filter wrongly marked as NSFW.
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