I know it’s been getting worse over time, but I could still find what I needed after some digging.

Recently it’s been like 10 minutes of adjusting search terms, still getting completely useless or irrelevant results, and me just giving up afterwards. Other search engines seem just as bad.

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    2 days ago

    Oh my god, I feel this so much… Also, I think that recently got even worse, as I recently found myself switching between DDG/Google and finding both extremely bad for my query

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      I know it’s being overly recommended in here, but kagi pretty much gives you exactly what you want. I’ve had very few times it’s been unable to give me my search in the first few results. Others swear by SearXNG

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        Yeah, I’ve recently switched to SearXNG instances on some devices, definitely seem to be getting better results

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          apart from ne not having that much money laying around a the moment I’m not a fan of people having to pay for their search engine, as I’m of the opinion that such a fundamental tool to use the web should remain free

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      Yes!

      It think it got suddenly so much worse recently. Glad to see I’m not alone, something must’ve e changed.

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      does it also straight up ignore special commands like -whatever i could swear you could use that on many sites and it worked as "exclude this "

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        2 days ago

        it sometimes seem to, most advanced searching still works, at least on DDG