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Is there any good, free search engine left? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by superkret@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing now all return the same shitty LLM-generated nonsense sites to most of my searches, and don't respect my literal search terms even when I put them in quotes.

I'm not ready to pay for search, yet.

Is there any alternative?

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[–] anothermember@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you (or is anyone here) daily-driving Stract yet? I discovered it a few months ago and thought it was everything I was looking for in a search engine, but also concluded that its search results aren't up to the standard I can use for now, so I filed it as one to look out for. Would be interested in hearing others' experiences.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

Unfortunately not. I'd like to, but as you say it's not quite there yet. I probably should try it more frequently.