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If I may suggest something crazy: Try Bing for a month. You can turn off most of the crap. Backstory: I've been a Google user since it was in beta, having move
by CharlesW 2y ago
If I may suggest something crazy: Try Bing for a month. You can turn off most of the crap.
Backstory: I've been a Google user since it was in beta, having moved from AltaVista. A few months ago, I decided I wanted to try something different in an ongoing effort to reduce my Google footprint. Kagi is the obvious alternative, but they don't have the right plan for me — if their no-AI plan offered unlimited searches, I'd be using it. As an experiment, I set Bing as my default search engine, and it's been fine. You can turn off the front page "tabloid" crap, and also Copilot responses on result pages.
- giancarlostoro 2y ago> having moved from AltaVista High five! Same here! Not many people seem to know what AltaVista is or was. I do use Bing in one browser on my work computer, its okay, still find it much easier to just ask Grok for links to things... I get summaries and exactly what I was looking for.
- CharlesW 2y agoYes! That's an important point — I'm also using LLMs for search quite a bit, and in fact that really got the ball rolling in terms of reducing my dependence on Google Search specifically.