Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search "soon." He said this after Google made google.com/ai go directly to AI Mode's interface on Friday afternoon.
I use kagi, it’s the closest thing to the old timey google before it sucked.
I used ddg and searxng for a long time, but if you use them long enough you’ll find they’re not great at certain searches and I got tired of the hassle. Search engines are one of those things i just want to work and not fiddle with.
I’ve been using qwant for about a year now with good success but lately it’s started blocking me for not being human and despite successfully passing their human test. Not sure what’s up with that. Might have to switch to something else.
Startpage has been decent for me. I find results and move on with life as a search engine should be.
I accidentally used the googs on a system last week and holy hell was it awful. The results looked so weird and unhelpful and then I noticed the default SE on the browser and fixed it straight away.
What search engine do you use?
I use kagi, it’s the closest thing to the old timey google before it sucked.
I used ddg and searxng for a long time, but if you use them long enough you’ll find they’re not great at certain searches and I got tired of the hassle. Search engines are one of those things i just want to work and not fiddle with.
I use Kagi as my daily driver. If I have too choose a free search engine, I would use Qwant, Startpage or Ecosia.
I’ve heard good things about Kagi but I don’t know that I want to pay for it. Is it a big upgrade on Ecosia?
My motto is: If it’s free, you pay with your data. And I really have trust in Kagi.
Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant, DDG doesn’t feel very different to me and they all are doing an okayish job. But everything’s better than google.
Kagi lets you try it for a while before asking you to pay for it, fyi
I’ve been using qwant for about a year now with good success but lately it’s started blocking me for not being human and despite successfully passing their human test. Not sure what’s up with that. Might have to switch to something else.
Startpage has been decent for me. I find results and move on with life as a search engine should be.
I accidentally used the googs on a system last week and holy hell was it awful. The results looked so weird and unhelpful and then I noticed the default SE on the browser and fixed it straight away.