• @[email protected]
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    Lots of talk about which search engine to use; surprisingly little talk about extensions.

    Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is my personal recommendation. Whichever SE you use, when you see a result that’s AI slop or a garbage website like Forbes, just add bullshit.com to the filter, set to hide, and you’ll never see that trash in a search result ever again.

    Be diligent about it for a good week or so, and your search result quality will absolutely explode, whether your using Google, DDG, or several others.

  • TheTechnician27
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    12011 hours ago

    Using a search engine that isn’t saturated with ads and AI trash also solves this problem.

    • @[email protected]
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      139 hours ago

      I stopped using Whoogle (Privacy engine using Google search) because of the bad search results. Google’s fault of course.

      Trying SearxNG now.

      • @[email protected]
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        Same with startpage because google indexing becoming horrible.
        But I have some cons. with searxng, earch quality becomes horrible when adding too much sources, and I decided to go with ddg.

      • fmstrat
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        54 hours ago

        SXNG has been great for me. Submitted a PR to add more quick-answers, too.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 hours ago

      Which other trustworthy search engines are there? And I don’t mean some different frontend or a meta search engine like ddg, sp, kagi, searx(ng), etc… that mostly just use googles, bings or even yandex and beidu results?

      Ages ago I configured and hosted yacy for myself, but that was a different time… Are there any real alternatives? With mayor internet companies like cloudflare, social media sites and many others restricting the access to the net and information, searching becomes more and more impossible if you aren’t a huge corporation…

      • TheTechnician27
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        58 hours ago

        The two criteria I suggested were “not saturated with ads and AI trash” (technically just the latter would satisfy OP’s problem), and DDG meets both of those with no problem. Its AI “assistant” and its ads can both be trivially disabled. I use DuckDuckGo because I love its frontend and because it gives me fewer problems than Google did. I’ve only ever used alternative search engines that piggyback off the major ones (as you listed: DDG, Startpage, and SearX), so someone else would have to answer that for you.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 hours ago

          Well, you and I just have a different understanding of “search engine” then. For me a search engine is something that doesn’t forward queries to third parties.

  • @[email protected]
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    4011 hours ago

    To add it to Firefox search, open about:config and add a boolean value browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh set to true. This will allow you to manually add search engines. Then open the search settings and click add. Set the URL to https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s, give it a name and click “Add Engine”.

    • @[email protected]
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      I still like the idea of not using google search as my defacto standard, however once a month I may do an actual google search and this is a nice backup.

      Thank you for your work

    • Alatarius
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      Tried this and it returns as site not found

  • TimeSquirrel
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    As in, forever for good, or the “Microsoft” “for good” user settings paradigm?

  • @[email protected]
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    Anyone know how to add it to mobile Chrome?

    Edit: go to the udm14 site, then open settings/search engine, it’ll be in there. I’m not sure if you have to do a search through the site first for it to show up.

    • Kokesh
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      511 hours ago

      There is an addon for Firefox mobile