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.

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    77·
    10 months ago

    Just use searxng.

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

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
      83·
      10 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
        85·
        10 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
          5·
          10 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
      511·
      10 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.

      • ReCursing@kbin.social
        93·
        10 months ago

        I think it’s perfectly understandable that some people are homophobes

        No it’s not. It’s not a justifiable position. It’s not unexpected sadly, but it is not understandable because it’s not a position based on anything other than ingrained hatred and fear