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The Mediocrity of Modern Google. (om.co)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality and her romanticized dreams of escape. That is Google in a nutshell, isn’t it?

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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 23 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

People keep pushing Kagi. You get 100 free searches to try it. So far I haven't had a search result from Google thats so bad I need to turn to another search engine, its just a poor user experience.

I tried to use Startpage and it almost did the trick. It was text search results parsed from google without any of the other crap that shows up in search results these days. However one critical tool was missing - The forums search category. They have other categories like images, news, shopping, etc. I heavily use forum searches when viewing search results and not having it was an instant deal breaker.

[–] HexPat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I signed up for 3 free months of Kagi recently. I don’t think I do enough searching to justify paying for a search engine but I have been pleased with search results for what I asked and nothing more.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you find there are fewer AI slop results than Google/bing?

[–] HexPat@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

You get a list of results that looks a bit like Google without the AI answer up top and without any ads. There is a “quick answer” button you can click towards the top of the results that WILL generate an AI response but it isn’t visible by default

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