I’m trying to degoogle. I’ve heard good things about DuckDuckGo and I’ve been using it for the past few weeks and it’s pretty solid. But I’m just wondering what the Lemmy/Piefed community prefer for a search engine.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    Kagi. I knowmit gets trash talked for several, reasons, but I’ve used ecosia, duckduckgo, and now I’m back to, Kagi. I just like it better all around.

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      Been a Kagi user for about 6 months now. Not one negative thing to say. So refreshing to have good results again.

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        Kagi user since 2022, according to my account. I’ll admit that I rarely ever cross-check with other search engines. I like their assistants too (they are basically re-selling access to all big LLMs in their Ultimate tier), but what keeps me there is the good search results. (And the ability to easily block/raise some domains on the results page.)

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      It feels like spam to mention Kagi since it’s all over the place (even on Hacker News), but I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning and it made me a “2x programmer” due to their good results.

      If I had no money left, I would try SearXNG.

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        For programming questions why not use an LLM? The days of searching a specific problem are long done. LLM+Documentation is all you really need now days.