I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?

Edit: I meant to also express my frustration that most browsers do not let you select a “default search engine” that can be used in the address bar aside from 3-5 pre-chosen engines. Seems like 2023 we should be able to customize that to our own liking.

Edit 2: Thanks for the recommendation of Kagi. I’m going to roll with it for a while. I see they have an extension for Safari that allows them to hijack the address bar, which is just what I needed.

    • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
      8·
      9 months ago

      Yep. Like $1.99 or $2.99 I can easily justify but $5/mo for only 300 searches feels too steep to me reguardless of result quality. I’ll just go through the other pages of results from any other search engine.

    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
      97·
      9 months ago

      If you’re not spending some money then you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Would you really prefer the web continue to be supported by ads and people who sell data about you?

      • blurg@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        If you’re not spending some money then you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

        • BSD (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, …)
        • GNU/Linux (e.g. kernel, Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, …)
        • GNU/FSF/FOSS software (e.g. LibreOffice, Vim, Emacs, , Compiler Collection, Gnome & KDE desktop, GIMP, VLC, Wine, Python, …)
        • Misc. (e.g. Wikipedia (& Kiwix), Gutenberg (& Calibre), Archive.org, CreativeCommons,org, OpenStreetMap, Lemmy, R, …)
        • Plenty of public schools, public library, charities, …

        Would like to argue with you. However, supporting these projects directly, if you can afford to, is something of a personal responsibility.

      • MadhuGururajan@programming.dev
        37·
        9 months ago

        People can do without search. Most will find better uses for 10$ an hour. Those who can’t probably won’t buy search. So, lose-lose for you who tries to convince people in every post.