Google search is becoming one of those dying malls. You still go there out of habit, but once you get there, none of it is what you want...

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's not dying yet

[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

As a counter point, I've recently started using Google search (through startpage.com) more because DuckDuckGo (Bing) results have been shit lately. And before you get on my case for using DDG and StartPage, I know they're not great companies but I've tried Brave Search, Mojeek, Presearch and others and the results just didn't cut it.

[–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Try searx

[–]catfishrising 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

They removed some important image search options, such as filetype or exact size. I often get better results from Yandex.

[–]Densel 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're not that far but its not dying, it's just not useful anymore because the internet has gotten much worse than when Google was new and now ISP servers destroy most of your results while Google then filters what's left until all you have left is ads, distractions, unrelated websites and maybe one or a few results related to your search.

[–]WhenImBanned 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Google dominates no question. Not even close to dying.

[–]Chipit[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

That's what they said about the malls.

Though we all appreciate you chiming in to defend the interests of one of the world's biggest, most powerful corporations. Good for you!

[–]WhenImBanned 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not chiming in to defend the interest of the blah blah I'm stating facts.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And yet that's exactly what you did. In an article about skepticism of Google, you immediately dropped in to defend them.

Do better.

[–]WhenImBanned 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Are you stupid?

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No a wahabi

[–]MightyMorphinFaggot 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The day bing became more useful than google was a dark day indeed.

[–]Chipit[S] 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

https://teclis.com Teclis is a search engine for finding interesting, unique results on ‘clean’ websites. Teclis is an attempt to surface the less known web, the web of creativity and self expression, the more humane web.

https://millionshort.com Remove Google’s top sites from the result. Remove the top million, top 100,000, etc.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://search.marginalia.nu/

is also really good. Very weird, but interesting.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Teclis looks really cool, thank you!