• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    12·
    11 months ago

    Which is why I stopped going since about 4 years ago now. One day I just went to a different mall, and never looked back

    • fidodo@lemm.ee
      3·
      11 months ago

      Where? I feel Google has gone way downhill but the Bing based search engines haven’t seemed any better.

      • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        tons of alternatives.
        search engines with independent indexes(i.e., not beholden to any big search engine):

        • mojeek
        • brave search(semi independent)
        • kagi(semi independent)

        meta-search engines(gets results from other search engines):

        • startpage(google)
        • duckduckgo(bing)
        • qwant(bing)
        • swisscows(bing)
        • metager(multiple sources)
        • searx(ng)(multiple sources, configurable by user)

        I’m still missing a ton but this should give you an idea.

        for more, see this interactive graph, or this Wikipedia list which includes other niche types of search engines as well.

        I personally use mojeek(because of their independent index) with duckduckgo as a fallback.