yeah, it's reasonably good, only struggles with more niche searches - when I search for seemingly unrelated topics it often falls back to showing ~5 generic links for one of the topics, then ~5 generic links for the other, but if I search for the same with Google &udm=14, it finds the specific niche overlap I was looking for
SearxNG is a free and open-source metasearch engine that provides agggregated search results, available under AGPL-3.0, with the aim of protecting its users privacy.
Or you can open google with &udm=14 — it automatically switch to "web" version, which doesn't have ads, recommended, ai overview and other features. It just searches what you typed (weird concept for search engine)
I disabled the Google app to get rid of the annoying android ai powered "circle to search". Now when I accidentally hold the home button, it says "To use Circle to Search, first enable the Google app".
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https://duckduckgo.com/
Free, does not take your data, you can turn the ai thing on and off
And even https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Doesn't have it off by default, and not all browsers let you set a custom search engine to direct to the "No AI" version
I still use DDG since it's the least bad, but it's still hypocritical for a "private" search engine to default to an AI
If you don't clear your cookies on these other browsers, tap the settings icon of search assist placed on the top right corner, and select Never.
(Though I've recently been told that it uses Bing's index, so real searches may struggle.)
It's pretty good nowadays.
yeah, it's reasonably good, only struggles with more niche searches - when I search for seemingly unrelated topics it often falls back to showing ~5 generic links for one of the topics, then ~5 generic links for the other, but if I search for the same with Google &udm=14, it finds the specific niche overlap I was looking for
Would recommend trying SearXNG
Paraphrased from Wikipedia:
Time is not a flat circle, but an endless spiral. We've come back around to Dogpile
u block optional list under "annoyances"
You can add a custom filter too:
Or you can open google with &udm=14 — it automatically switch to "web" version, which doesn't have ads, recommended, ai overview and other features. It just searches what you typed (weird concept for search engine)
whoa i didn't know that one
I disabled the Google app to get rid of the annoying android ai powered "circle to search". Now when I accidentally hold the home button, it says "To use Circle to Search, first enable the Google app".
Why can't I rebind that in stock android?
Because you don't have stock android, you have googles modified android
Samsung, but sure.
That is samsungs modified version of googles modiefied version of stock android (aosp)
Was that last thing not in settings>apps>default apps>digital assistant apps ?
That's for holding down the side button
Has stock android really pivoted to the 'bixby button' behaviour? That sucks 😭
Switch to LineageOS
Behold, an ancient relic from an earlier age of the interwebs: http://blackle.com/
Originally intended to cut power usage in the days of CRT monitors, it continues to deliver old-style google results for reasons unknown
Though Google is probably still tracking you through it.
We all need to stop giving them money, that means data. We gotta get everyone we know to stop too.
Just deleted youtube after a weekend of internet outage cured my addiction. (It will come back probably)
https://docs.searxng.org/
https://metager.org/ does the trick
Click on "Web" (or add
&udm=14to the URL), save as new search engine / bookmark.Is google still provides the best results and meets your needs best there are extensions that remove the ai overview :)
https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/