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You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 168 points 2 years ago (37 children)

I'd recommend avoiding Google for web searching. Duckduckgo has been a good alternate for me for about 5 years now. I've heard that Bing is a good alternate, even though its a Microsoft service. ChatGPT is also a good option to compliment web searches, though I'd recommend getting a second result from another service if looking up an answer to a question, but when doing general questions/suggestions it can outperform a web search in both detail and ability to refine/filter.

Google is just a ranked ad delivery service based on an abused and gamed SEO system, it's fucking awful for delivering useful links.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Brave Search is basically DuckDuckGo but with an independent index. unfortunately it doesn't support images yet so it redirects you when you click on "images"

[–] Makeshift 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love brave search. I think it's way better than DDG. and that's not even considering their summarizer feature. it's basically autotldr for your search

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same, I love it too. The UI is great, it's fast, and the discussions tab is nice. I get pretty high quality results too.

[–] Makeshift 1 points 2 years ago

I can't believe I forgot the discussions tab! that is a super awesome feature. especially now since it works on all sorts of forum sites, not just reddit, since that's gone to shit

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