Even noted problems with freespoke as well. The research is all being throttled and manipulated. Unless you know exactly what you are looking for, you're not likely to find it using a general search - not like days gone by.
I do a lot of research and things are getting worse. They seem to be making changes about every 6 months. I believe we are going through another one of these changes and some are noticing. These are incremental changes that will go unnoticed by those not looking for anything but the most superficial information. The stuff does not seem to be scrubbed, but it is so buried that a search is not likely to pull it up like it used to. Q said to archive offline. Otherwise, we will have no way of knowing what is actually out there.
its a decentralized search engine. i run an instance on a raspberry pi @ my house. there are millions of people running their own nodes, and it all works without a centralized hub. it is the future of search engines.
I use google for inconsequential things like crafting, cooking, gardening. Yandex for everything else and multiple search engines for deep research.
have recently been experimenting with freespoke and it seems ok so far
Even noted problems with freespoke as well. The research is all being throttled and manipulated. Unless you know exactly what you are looking for, you're not likely to find it using a general search - not like days gone by.
I do a lot of research and things are getting worse. They seem to be making changes about every 6 months. I believe we are going through another one of these changes and some are noticing. These are incremental changes that will go unnoticed by those not looking for anything but the most superficial information. The stuff does not seem to be scrubbed, but it is so buried that a search is not likely to pull it up like it used to. Q said to archive offline. Otherwise, we will have no way of knowing what is actually out there.
there is one less ominous, but more annoying, thought.
that they are simply cutting costs on a free service. we know that their ad revenue is down, so why wouldn't they cut corners in other ways?
perhaps we will be needing to move back to directory style services like AltaVista.
Same. I use Qwant too, but thats been kind of crappy lately.
check out the presearch project
its a decentralized search engine. i run an instance on a raspberry pi @ my house. there are millions of people running their own nodes, and it all works without a centralized hub. it is the future of search engines.
What's made it creepy? Not familiar at all with qwant
I still think it's fine tbh.
It's a "neutral" search engine. So you'll still get some results that are good and some that are not.
For example searching "aflds" gives tons of good results. But also a Time magazine hit piece towards the bottom of the page.
Used qwant about one day. Didn't notice any difference. Same crappy search results.
Me too, although I'm thinking of not even using it for those things lately. Why give them my "business " for anything
https://www.startpage.com/
Use that instead of Google. It will get the same results.
Use this for that instead: https://www.startpage.com/
You'll get the same results.