@lina What's sad is that Google used to be great. To the point of having that "I'm feeling lucky" button which went directly to the first result, because the first result was the best one that often.

I don't know when Google jumped the shark. To me, it was probably when I had to remove it from the "always run JS from this site because I trust it" list, because IIRC it started moving things in the search results page when hovering over links. But it probably started when they bought doubleclick.

@lina I switched to kagi years ago because its search was somewhat better, but I didn't expect it to become so much better

@lina Have you tried https://www.ecosia.org/

It uses the same search index as Qwant (https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/)

I switched to it from DuckDuckGo and I'm quite liking it 🙂

@lina Just tried searching with Kagi, no issues either. Glad I switched. Was very unhappy with the way Google provided search results and the shift they made

@lina I feel you, this is why I switched away from Google as well.

@lina I've previously had issues where I'll have a technical problem, search online with the specific keywords describing the problem, and Google just gives me a hundred articles about how "this software so great because you can't have the described problem!"

@lina I recently was told about SearXNG and now use that

@lina indeed first 3 pages on DDG are relevant. (Github, homepage, yt) That's how a search engine should be performing. 😄

Enshittification I guess? Not caring?

@lina

Qwant is even better. Near Google-like results, back when Google was good, and located in France, Europe, outside of Donald Trump's influence.

@lina It’s wild how different the AI replies and the “traditional” list of actual real sources can be. Especially since it’s the same idea (just with an AI summary).

It’s getting really weird.