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Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (tech.slashdot.org)
submitted 9 months ago by jezebelley@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

RE: potential astroturfing (my comment last time); from my comment downthread that one:

Anytime [paid search engines] are mentioned I suppose I’ll jump in and say…SearXNG is a popular non-commercial alternative. I wanted to throw Grasp in to give a commercial competitor a shout but they’ve “paused”.

Update on Grasp:

We will be back soon and will open-source our code.

Neat, wonder if SearXNG x Grasp would be synergistic.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I am also using SearcXNG and the search results are usually good even though sometimes on the light side and I still have to resort to other search engines.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I've been finding it very useful on various SearXNG instances to change the "language" from "auto" to "en" (English) for most of my searches, or to a specific language if I'm searching for something local or something that's likely to be written about in that specific language. The search results change drastically!

[–] ratcliff@lemmy.wtf 2 points 9 months ago

Make sure to enable more engines in the settings