The best search engines?

Seems like this one is now a sellout...to Bing but still claims it's anonymous. Moo-ving along.....

Spoiler: sellout search engine swisscows

 

Since Neeva is dead, I moved to Bing, it is only logical when using Edge, MSA, MS apps on android, etc.

Not sure what good it is for anyway, blocking a healthy lifestyle.

 

I tried the much-touted "AI-enhanced" Bing reverse image search recently but found it far inferior to Tineye and Yandex. Surprisingly, Yandex can locate even the most obscure images, even on non-Cyrillic language sites.

 

Just saw this while looking thru Yahoo, which ironically also has a search engine but will I use it? It is to laugh.
But wow, Google is in trouble now, it seems. Let's see how this pans out.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...-trial-both-have-a-lot-to-lose-101034818.html

 

I would say Google and Google's Bard, internet is open, why we have security tools, to protect. Eventually Microsoft and Google will be the top dogs, for search

 

Use any number of major search engines of your choice without the tracking and the BS with https://search.disroot.org/

 

https://www.techspot.com/news/101560-study-confirms-search-results-major-engines-getting-worse.html

I feel like lately Google Search is indeed getting worse. Sometimes I search for movies and it can't immediately find them, at least not as top result. Especially if I don't enter the year that the movie was made. No wonder I'm so skeptical about this AI stuff.

 

I try to stay away from artificial (made up) search results, but it is hard to, since there are everywhere, not to mention ad supported. And they even want us to pay for those dim-witted results, unbelievable.

 

... or another SearXNG instance. Yes, I've been using SearXNG for a long time, right now gruble.de.

 

Deep-pocketed search suppliers learned to make a buck off search engines, and it became overblown, attracting a counter to uBlock, Privacy Badger, etc. Nothing of monetary value was really stolen, using a free product. Free comes with strings; use extensions. Ublock, etc., more people use free, and few donate. Harvesting consumer trends does improve what's ultimately offered.
Bard & ChatGPT have fewer trackers.

 

It is my opinion there is no "best" search engine. I am currently using Brave. I switch around, they are all about the same and they put the "preferred" results up first. Brave uses AI to put a Summarizer at the top. With references. Still is not always objective. I find often I have to dig to find what I am looking for.

 

On the other hand, the image search of the various search engines does not have the efficiency that one would expect when comparing with Google.
Some are better than others.

 

That's probably true. And that's why I'm using SeaXNG which in turns uses multiple search engines - which ones depends on your choice.

 

I new one on me. I will give it a try.

 

So in other words kind of AI.

 

No, it just gives an option to enable your choice from a list of engines.

 

OK, I thought it gathers information from various sources which is actually a key feature of AI.

 

A look at search engines with their own indexes - Seirdy