alt Hacker NewsGood. Now please someone replace Google's search engine.
I am always annoyed using it, how bad it is these days. Then I try the alternatives such as Duck Duck Go and they manage to be even worse.
Qwant is semi-ok but it also omits tons of things that Google Search finds (and also is slower, for some weird reason).
Google's UI nerf is also annoying - so much useless stuff. In the past I could disable that via ublock origin but Google killed that for chrome.
We need to do something against this Evil that Google brought into this world.
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- How many people use only Google search engine nowadays? More and more people use chatbots, with Google search.
- Google search also does not provide good results for finding stuff in all walled gardens, so we also use niche search engines for individual platforms. I am not sure if it finds good results for posts in facebook and x.com
- I also use my own index of pages, YouTube channels, and github pages. Contains tags, page scoring system, related links, social information like number of followers etc.
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
So in a way, it has being replaced. It just takes some time for people to switch.
Not quite independent as it’s a meta-search, but I developed a subscription based one at search.waterfox.net. Pays for the infrastructure costs and remains ad/tracking free.