SEO has made it incredibly hard to find answers without getting spammed by news and blog sites. Places like ask Lemmy help democratize answers through upvotes and downvotes so the quality is higher.

Do you know of any hidden gems for search engines or Q&A sites that contain highly relevant answers without much noise?

  • KrisND@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I personally use brave search, it has worked very well in the 6ish months I’ve used it. Not only for privacy but the results are solid and I’ve noticed improvements from feedback in the community. If it has enough data it does have an AI generated summary as well which I’ve found to be very useful for precise questions.

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    1 year ago

    Site:somesite.com queries can help.

    I started using Kagi a while back. It’s a paid search engine but is pretty solid

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      1 year ago

      Kagi looks interesting, i was hoping someone would move into the market to try to make a real search engine again

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          1 year ago

          they always did, with google you paid with your privacy and attention to ads. in the pre-google days you paid your ISP and/or aol

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    1 year ago

    You may not like it, but Bing chat, it will cite its sources so even if it hallucinates something you can fact check

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      1 year ago

      LMAO.

      Bing only works with Edge AFAIK?

      I have heard it is like malware to get rid of macOS lol, I actually installed it, but never uninstalled it because I formatted my Mac for an unrelated case.

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      I agree, since the heavy SEO push has come about, Bing chat works the best. SEO has ruined search engines, it’s a little like Taco Bell using sand as a filler.