I've been using qwant for a couple years now without any issue. It mainly uses Bing as a backend.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Users weren't happy with the search results before the blackout either, and "quite" has no part in it. Google traded quality results for revenue over a decade ago... right about the time they changed their Don't Be Evil motto.
Even though I think places like Lemmy and Reddit are awesome for hunting down other people's experiences, I wonder if guiding people to places like Codidact or Stack Overflow for actual questions and answers is a better solution for the world. If Codidact joined the Fediverse, that would be ideal. It would just be important to have redundancy in the datasets of each instance. Would suck to lose an entire subject's worth of answers if an instance shutdown.
No shit lol
I discovered the kagi search engine last week and it's so much better. No ads. I can move favored sites up or pin them in the search results.
Edit: Found out they only allow 100 searches for free, after that it's a paid monthly subscription. So ignore my previous advice...
This is a good change as it may expand to more sites. I'm one of those users that used reddit in query often looking for opinions or reviews. We should get Lemmy on the list.
It feels absolutely nutty that it's gone from
- Reddit search sucks, I literally use google to search stuff in Reddit
- Things I've never seen: Page 2 of Google
to
- I literally need to add reddit when I do a google search
- I cannot find what I want after page 5
Google used to be synonymous with reliable results and Reddit as the awkward website you barely spoke about. Now you need to use reddit to find proper results because the slow bleeding that is SEO has screwed over Google.