Hiya, I’ve heard that Google appears to finally be fully integrating “AI” (machine learning) into their search engine. Techcrunch article Digiday media briefing Arstechnica article I’ve already moved my email/drive/that stuff over to Proton last year, (at least, what I can. It’s really difficul…

I find no search engine works well for everything so I just add multiple search engines to my browser so I can quickly and easily use whichever search engine I’d like by using shortcuts. If your browser doesn’t support that functionality you can use DuckDuckGo bangs or Brave bangs instead. Usually D…

I have tried Brave search and duckduckgo and I think brave is way better.

Kagi and Brave Search are likely the closest you’re going to get to a Google like experience.

Check out https://presearch.com own indexer decentralized no algo

I would pay like 1-3 dollars per month for Brave search since I use Brave browser with Brave search, so the ads are blocked. Not that I would ever click on a search ad, it would make me less likely to visit the site if there was an ad for it. Also paying for search would support them for their brows…

Thank you, I didn’t think to look for a dedicated thread, my bad. :face_savoring_food: Note on that thread: The last post is almost one year old. Take into account that this project is still running and evolving and a lot has improved since then. If you are really interested in getting away from c…

[image] Cyvapri: :backhand_index_pointing_right:t3: we’re not talking about comparing search engines anymore: we’re talking about paradigm change. If you are referring to the node network idea, YaCy already did that decades ago, except that they are open-source: Home - YaCy YaCy…

Sarcasm isn’t productive. I suggest reading what the essence of web3 and crypto is originally and not the corrupted usage made by unscrupulous speculators and noise made by AI generated posts.

Whoa, I had no idea DDG had a dedicated No-AI engine. Thank you for passing this along!

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I’d prompt those curious about Presearch to read through its dedicated thread: Presearch.com, Decentralized Search Engine

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