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Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default)
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- Don't use Google
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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But instead use...?
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Kagi if your willing to pay
DDG if not
I just use Google and block everything.
Kagi means "key" in Japanese. Just a random fun fact.
Metasearch engines such as SearXNG.
Duck duck go. I switched a year ago and haven’t missed google at all.
DuckDuckGo on Firefox.
I'd recommend kagi or ddg like the other people, but brave search is also quite good, I like the fact it has a independent index
Ecosia search. For the trees. Think of the trees.
Custom search engines are limited to PC browsers only. Unfortunately, the mobile versions of these browsers will not let you set up a custom search, so you're stuck tapping on the Web view in all your mobile search queries.
someone hasn't heard of Firefox on Android.
Yes, it works on Firefox Android and Ios. So, that article is not 100% correct
Howtogeek is not exactly known for good journalism so it’s fine, I guess.
At least in the EU, you xan easily change search engines on chrome on android.
can you set a custom URL, which is required to do what the article is talking about, or do you just pick from the predefined list of search engines?
edit: just checked and nope, you can only pick from Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.
You have to visit a different search engine. And while the tab is open it appears in the list of selectable search engines. At least that is how I set up searxng as my default se.
Are there any extensions that fix Google on the mobile version of FireFox? It doesn't have all the same extensions available on PC, where I do have one that fixes Google.
The "web" category thing the article talks about is not an actual fix.
depends on what you mean by "fixing", I guess. I just resorted to not using Google at all, and use uBlacklist to filter out garbage websites from my search results.
The most recent version now includes a lot more extensions, and I think you can get even more with the nightly build. If you really can't find what you need, try one of the Firefox forks, which often have even better extension support.
The quality of Google search results has been rapidly declining over the last few years. It's not really even worth using anymore.
It's not so much that Google is declining, but the entire Internet. Google just hasn't figured out how to route around the damage.
Try adding "before:2023" to your searches to see what I mean.
Lol ... no ... Google and all the others are filtering all the good things out !
They are incentivised to suggest sites with Google Ads in them.
Of course they are ... but that's only part of the censorship.
Yeah. But, that workaround on the article improves a lot.
I've been using Startpage for a long time, which is basically this + no tracking.
Google should allow blacklists. The. A lot of sites will just be croudsourced to the round file.
Whoogle is the answer
There's a much faster way. Just put this in your hosts file:
0.0.0.0 google.com