It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      11 months ago

      If you are going to look for perfect companies, you will look forever, and probably use Google while you are looking.

      It’s not worth it. Just use something better than Google even if it’s flawed, because everything had flaws.

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        Just use searxng.

        Don’t give money to homophobes, we have an open source and better alternative already.

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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          11 months ago

          Kagi isn’t homophobic. Apparently the “controversy” is that it employs brave search as well; which is indeed made by a company with a homophobic ceo.

          Though by that logic virtually everyone in the world is. Because at some point in time, in some place, someone built a piece of modern civilization upon knowledge or resources belonging to a homophobic person, I’m fairly sure.

          • Deceptichum@kbin.social
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            11 months ago

            No, that’s a seperate controversy. The Kagis owners views became talked about a lot more during that event though.

            So many people here are quick to defend and normalise homophobia, yet refuses to just use an open source free alternative that’s without this baggage.

            • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyz
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              11 months ago

              Are you sure none of the developers of the open source free alternative aren’t homophobic, transphobic, or in some other way bad people?

        • 1984@lemmy.today
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          11 months ago

          I think it’s perfectly understandable that some people are homophobes, so it doesn’t worry me. You still have people being afraid of black people in this age even.

          You can dislike that of course, but that’s the real world. You can walk up to any older person and they are likely to be a lot less open to gay marriage than a younger person also.

          You interpret that as them being hostile. I think it’s more about being afraid of something that doesn’t feel natural to them.