Using a search engine that isn’t saturated with ads and AI trash also solves this problem.
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…
Searx is fancy about it though, It queries everybody and gives you the results that came back from multiple places. This effectively eliminates ads, AI, and unless they all missed it, spam.
I have nothing against any meta search engine, they are very useful, and I use them primarily as well.
However, they are not a true alternative, because they depend on third-party services. The same as Invidious is a very useful, but also not an alternative to YouTube itself, just a different user interface.
I stopped using Whoogle (Privacy engine using Google search) because of the bad search results. Google’s fault of course.
Trying SearxNG now.
SXNG has been great for me. Submitted a PR to add more quick-answers, too.
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.
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.comto 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.
Google search engine is much worse than it used to be and seems to be getting worse.
udm=14 doesn’t seem to improve Google search results by a significant margin.
Bing and DuckDuckGo seem to perform better than Google at present.
Google itself is failing. I’m not going to speculate why.
uBlacklist is my current extension for removing spam results.
Lol they put the guy who ran Yahoo into the ground in charge of Google search.
They sure did!
The guy? You mean Marissa Mayer?
Prabhakar Raghavan
There’s been a two pronged assault on it over the years.
Mostly from websites doing anything to spam up the results via SEO and mass produced articles about product recommendations, that are little more than the top 10 selling items of that type on Amazon along with affiliate links.
But also from within as Google morphed from a search company to an advertising company. Especially once they reached peak saturation and that all important growth must continue. I just don’t think the capitalism machine works for these tech corporations once they reach the size of Google. How do you even grow from there? Enshittification and eating yourself is the only possible outcome.
As in, forever for good, or the “Microsoft” “for good” user settings paradigm?
Lets you turn it off for good…until Google removes that feature
It would be great if it did anything for SEO, but alas.
Good old six month old articles getting reposted, yup, yup, yup.
Am I the only one questioning the spelling of “tyre“?
Today you learned a new aspect of the British English dialect. Congrats!
They’ll be boggled by hiccough and gaol.
not everyone speaks ameican english
Is it just me or is this response the wrong response? I would have expected:
not everyone speaks bri’ish english
(that missing “r” in “ameican” inspires the use of the “improper” option here). It’s American English that uses “tire”, after all, and the rest of the Anglosphere that has “tyre”.
Canadian English is also tire. We have a good mix of both sides
And it’s probably India which has the most English speakers in the world (counting it as native, second or third language)
Deus Vult!
