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Define better first. If by better you mean supporting a competitive market that doesn't strengthen the monopoly Google has on search and their results which, a
by 0xedd 5y ago
Define better first.
If by better you mean supporting a competitive market that doesn't strengthen the monopoly Google has on search and their results which, as years go by, are augmented for their benefit but not yours, then anything is better than Google.
If by better you mean increased chances that the first few results will contain the answer you need, then Google is still king. That being said, when it comes to tech, with most answers found in open git issues or stackoverflow, i find brave search sufficient. So much so that i haven't used any of Google's services in over a year.
The real question is, what are you willing to compromise? There's an in-between for the two extremes above and the choice is subjective.
An exciting alternative is https://neeva.com/ https://neeva.com/
I'll happily pay money for a privacy oriented search engine as i do for email, cloud storage and NextCloud. We shouldn't expect things to be given to us for free. I work, they work, we can do a fair trade with some iou derivatives.
- DocTomoe 5y ago> neeva A website that requires me to sign up to see what their premium account may cost ... this sounds pretty scammy to me.
- skinkestek 5y agoAlso not available in my region. Straight from the playbook of big film ;-)
- aceazzameen 5y agoI was excited for Neeva at first. But then I saw the premium includes some kind of NFT trash attached to it. I'll take my money elsewhere. I signed up for the Kagi beta and am hoping it will be better.
- skinkestek 5y ago> If by better you mean increased chances that the first few results will contain the answer you need, then Google is still king. Hasn't been true since at least December. Kagi is better now by almost an order of magnitude. Of course my Google is not your Google. Still I have experimentdd so much with Google over so many years, logged in, logged out, from multiple addresses that I am confident in saying that it hasn't been itself for a decade and finally now we have a better alternative.
- nottorp 5y ago> Of course my Google is not your Google. And that's the main problem with the new Google.
- smallerfish 5y agoNeeva signups are bizarrely region locked. I get that there may be some local results for some kinds of searches, but that's easily handled with a banner in results for geo searches that states "local results aren't available in your area yet", rather than locking much of the world out of the service.