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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s why I use brave search, it’s a free search engine and the results are actually really good

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Even if it's good, their long term goal will always be to appease their advertising customers, not you. Google has the ability more than anyone else to make the perfect search engine but they're not spending their time and resources on that because that's not what will increase their revenue. That model is just fundamentally broken.

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

I used it before and unfortunately, it sucks in comparison to Kagi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk, I found it to be quite good but it may be just me knowing how to search stuff (even tho Google just gives shitty results and DDG is hit or miss)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I also know how to use keywords, etc. And maybe I went a bit overboard when I said Brave Search sucks. It doesn't suck, but with Kagi, I don't feel like a product any more and the search results make sense again, like with Google a couple years ago. Most free search engines just don't work that good any more.

If you would've told me 2 years ago that I'll be paying for a search engine in the future... Well, I would've thought that you're crazy. But here I am now.