Oh they’re planning to replace the standard link view with AI overview in general :3 source
There’re quite a few alternative search engines; I personally use duckduckgo, but startpage is also good, I hear, I’ve been trying it out in cases where ddg doesn’t get my desired results :3. There’s also searXNG which is more technical, but quite good in terms of fetching results from a bunch of stuff, and a lot of people I know swear by kagi, but that one is a paid service. Those are the main “big” ones I see around. Of course they’re by far not the only ones
Going to pop in with a vote for Kagi. They are paid, but they also run their own index so they don’t use Google at all. Well worth it.
noai.duckduckgo.com is the best drop-in replacement for a free pre-AI search engine.
kagi.com is great if you can justify paying for it.
I’ve used both for a long time and have never missed Google, especially in its current state.
I use kagi for free but my dad is addicted to google so I might see if he likes it…
Honestly he’s in the demographic that might prefer the ai slop :/
Hell yeah! You gotta Duck it!
If you aren’t paying for it, you’re the product being sold.
That’s not always true, point in case is open source software, but it’s good to look into where a company gets its profit from if any.
Well good news, DuckDuckGo has been profitable with privacy respecting ads for a long time, now.
if you aren’t paying for it, you might be able to afford rent this month
If the grass is free; you’re the cattle.
Google seems hell-bent on AI; DuckDuckGo lets you easily disable AI search. Try it out.
They provide this handy url as well: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Duckduckgo is just bing search
While I believe most of their results originate from Bing, according to their Wikipedia page they have used over 400 sources including Bing, Yahoo, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler. And even if 100% of their results were from Bing, saying it’s “just bing search” is very misleading.
DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia are the two big ones that tend to come up in these kind of questions, although there’s a handful of smaller search platforms out there as well. Bing is even worse than Google at this point. If I recall correctly Ecosia uses a custom search algorithm but still relies mostly on Google’s index at this time, DuckDuckGo is entirely independent.
duckduckgo uses bing doesn’t it? the results seem mostly identical to me
I’m pretty sure yes, if you use ddg news there’ll be a lot of results from MSN, owned by Microsoft
If I recall correctly it queries the Bing API among other niche sources for indexing and acts as a proxy for ad purposes, so while there’s a lot of Bing results, it’s not one-to-one. Unless they changed things recently, it’s possible I missed a press release.
