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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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fuck this bruh. google search is worthless and adding reddit to a search query was the only way to make it bearable...
anyone know any good alternatives? maybe some search catalogue with multiple sources including a reddit scrape?
https://kagi.com/
It's not free, but not expensive. You are not the product. They have catalog-like search and curated results.
Kagi is goat.
My favorite feature is their universal summarizer. It can even do videos and podcasts
I just learned last month about Kagi and I'm never going back to Google.
I am really liking Kagi.
It allows you to search a collection of sources for information. Maybe you want to search a group of 20 tech blogs that you trust, just as one example.
Before Google, this was a common technique used by search engines to direct users to trusted content sources.
Honestly sometimes duck duck go gives me better results
I use duck as my first choice, but unless I'm just looking up one word, it doesn't find much useful. If I look for a specific question, duck doesn't work at all and I have to go back to google. google is way worse than it used to be, but it's still better than any other I have found yet.
I very rarely go back to google but at least it's very easy to do with bangs "!g [search Query]"
I guess the times duckduckgo works better for me is when I'm looking for answers Google is able to identify, but chooses to filter out, like in psychedelic trip reports