Good. Now please someone replace Google's search engine.

I am always annoyed using it, how bad it is these days. Then I try the alternatives such as Duck Duck Go and they manage to be even worse.

Qwant is semi-ok but it also omits tons of things that Google Search finds (and also is slower, for some weird reason).

Google's UI nerf is also annoying - so much useless stuff. In the past I could disable that via ublock origin but Google killed that for chrome.

We need to do something against this Evil that Google brought into this world.

▲ MrAlex94 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not quite independent as it’s a meta-search, but I developed a subscription based one at search.waterfox.net. Pays for the infrastructure costs and remains ad/tracking free.

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SyneRyder 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Nice! I couldn't see the list of search engines that are included in your meta-search, the FAQ currently seems to imply that it only serves Google results?

If you give users the option to include / not include certain search engines in their results, so their money never goes to those particular engine companies, that could be of interest to some Kagi refugees.

I ended up vibe coding my own meta-search engine (augmented with a local SQlite database of hand-picked sites) so that I could escape Kagi, but I'm excited if Waterfox Search is an alternative I can recommend to others!

	▲	MrAlex94 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Currently only Google, but Brave and Mojeek are going to be made available as well very soon

▲ ku1ik 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Try kagi.com. I tried and stayed. It’s paid though.

▲ dyml 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I also used Kagi, but decided to cancel my subscription last year when it was revealed they pay Yandex for their search, which is a Russian company that ultimately fuels the Russian war on Ukraine.

Once Kagi stops transferring money to Russia, I’d be happy re-subscribe.

▲ vjvjvjvjghv 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

[delayed]

▲ ramon156 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have a source how funding yandex funds the war? Yandex is a great search engine, so I would hate to find out that this is true

▲ b2ccb2 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex#Legal_issues_in_Ukraine
  https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/the-sad-fate-of-yandex-from-independent-tech-startup-to-kremlin-propaganda-tool

▲ ninalanyon 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's based in Russia so it presumably pays taxes and salaries in Russia.

	▲	crashmat 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All American companies pay taxes to America which is basically always commiting atrocities so I don't think that's a strogn enough reason on its own.

▲ renegat0x0 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

- How many people use only Google search engine nowadays? More and more people use chatbots, with Google search.

- Google search also does not provide good results for finding stuff in all walled gardens, so we also use niche search engines for individual platforms. I am not sure if it finds good results for posts in facebook and x.com

- I also use my own index of pages, YouTube channels, and github pages. Contains tags, page scoring system, related links, social information like number of followers etc.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

So in a way, it has being replaced. It just takes some time for people to switch.