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Google's search page has got noticeably worse in recent years, for a long list of reasons - here's another indication it's going to get even worse. I find myself using Duckduckgo more and more - it has its problems, but they are not as bad.
Consider checking out Kagi.
+1 for Kagi.
I paid to try it out for a month and it’s totally worth it. It’s by far better than duck duck go or bing. You can even promote and demote sites in your search results. No more pinterest and lots more wiki entries thanks to that.
Hey I'm gonna give this a shot. I'm super willing to pay for a service I use every day if it removes ads, improves results, and increases my privacy.
How many searches do you usually burn through a month? Not sure I love the prospect of keeping track of monthly usage but unlimited is twice as much money.
I'd recommend trying the $5/m plan and then if you find yourself hitting the limit the unlimited one recently got reduced to $10/m from $25/m.
Shouldn’t alternative search engines be as susceptible as Google?
Yes, they'll have problems too, but will they be as bad?
The issue in this example is that the results were also SEO optimized for Google. These days Google's results just seem liked paid placements or stuff SEO engineered to appear there.
Duckduckgo is far from perfect, but it seems better than Google at returning organic results.
DDG is Bing btw. Just to rub some salt in that age old Bing meme.