What’s your opinion? Does google really “not work” anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it’s own way i feel…

    • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      You will love it. I switched about 6 months ago and it’s wonderful. When I was using duckduckgo I had to use the !g keyword to search Google sometimes. With Kagi, it’s basically switch and you forget Google exists.

      Set it as default and you will see what I mean.

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        I’ve tried Kagi several times and the results for me are not good. I’ve pretty much gone back to Google unfortunately.

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          1 year ago

          Can I ask what kind of searches you’re doing? I don’t find google all that great, so I’m curious what you’re searching for where google gives you good results.

        • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.org
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          But it’s paid

          Unfortunately it’s looking like that’s going to be the future of things that aren’t shit on the internet, whether it’s paying for search, or donating every so often to your Fediverse admin to help keep the lights on.

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          Yup try it and set as default in the browser. You will start to see a lot of sites that never showed up in google also. They have these “listacles” in search results where they group relevant sites into a small list, which makes it super simple to go to them for results.

          If you want a sample search, try “best tv shows 2023” or something like that.