[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google?
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Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google?
I find Google amazing for some kinds of queries, such as directly
answering simple factual questions or finding content within a
defined domain. However, for a lot of things it's quite bad. If I
want to find a good website for some use-case (as opposed to
directly finding information inside a page), or if I want anything
where there might be a commercial interest in ~~lying~~ advertising
to me, Google is truly awful. It's also, obviously, very bad for
privacy. Surely there are a bunch of interesting new search
engines popping up given the recent deep learning explosion? What
interesting alternatives have you discovered?
Author : cowpig
Score : 15 points
Date : 2023-06-15 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
| jacooper wrote:
| IMO brave is the best alternative search engine but it definitely
| show its limit with niche queries.
| helph67 wrote:
| There are plenty of search engines that don't spy on you, here's
| a few... https://duckduckgo.com/ https://www.ecosia.org/
| https://www.qwant.com/ https://www.startpage.com/
| shortcake27 wrote:
| I can only speak to DDG but the quality of results are worse
| than Google. I still use it anyway as privacy outweighs
| accuracy for most of my searches.
| cowpig wrote:
| I think this is kind of an interesting project, though I suspect
| it's as bad or worse than google for privacy:
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| www.perplexity.ai
| xarvatium wrote:
| Been using Brave Search since it was public, it's improved a lot
| since. I also really like Duckduckgo and I use it on mobile, but
| Brave Search indexes their own sites rather than being a meta
| search engine, like how ddg uses Bing results. Nothing wrong with
| meta search engines though, I just personally prefer the way
| Brave does it.
| ChatGTP wrote:
| I like DuckDuckGo but it seems so slow lately , maybe it's my
| location but it's punishing.
| Kop wrote:
| Have you looked at Startpage?
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| https://www.startpage.com
| sureglymop wrote:
| SearxNG. Happy user of an instance someone is hosting near me
| that is fast and reliable.
| senko wrote:
| Kagi user here, very happy with them so far. I honestly use maybe
| a third of their features (lens and boost/block are great ones
| that I'm too lazy/forgetful to use).
|
| They also recently announced search AI (I think powered by
| Anthropic over their index) and API, which, as a developer, I
| also find useful.
|
| Finally, the vision and priorities they communicate are something
| I agree with.
|
| All this makes it a nobrainer to pay for their service.
| barbazoo wrote:
| I switched over to https://kagi.com a while ago and never use
| Google search anymore.
| privacyking wrote:
| Didn't they have some controversy recently where they screwed
| over their initial users?
| raybb wrote:
| Yes the changed pricing but then grandfathered people in
| later so didn't end up screwing people over.
| barbazoo wrote:
| I didn't care much about that, seemed reasonable what they
| did.
| mattnewport wrote:
| I've been paying for kagi for a while now and am pretty happy
| with it. Switched from DuckDuckGo.
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