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I have tried the alternatives to Google search but they all
come up with inferior results.

In spite of its evil, grubbing nature, Google search results
remain the best.

Why, tell me why, cannot anyone else do better?


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On 12/06/2025 20:03, Farley Flud wrote:

I have tried the alternatives to Google search but they all
come up with inferior results.

In spite of its evil, grubbing nature, Google search results
remain the best.

Why, tell me why, cannot anyone else do better?

Not strictly a search tool, but I've had some mileage out of Perplexity. You
ask it a question (as you would any other AI chatbot) and it will do the
searching for you, provide a list of sources and summarise quite nicely.

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On 6/16/25 21:59, LV-426 wrote:

On 2025-06-12 4:07 p.m., Jason H wrote:

On 12/06/2025 20:03, Farley Flud wrote:

I have tried the alternatives to Google search but they all
come up with inferior results.

In spite of its evil, grubbing nature, Google search results
remain the best.

Why, tell me why, cannot anyone else do better?

Not strictly a search tool, but I've had some mileage out of
Perplexity. You
ask it a question (as you would any other AI chatbot) and it will do the
searching for you, provide a list of sources and summarise quite nicely.
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Personally I like the brave.com search. It combines a bit of AI answer with traditional Google style results. If you go to search.brave.com, and click the address bar it should give you an option to install the search plugin
on your Firefox or whatever browser you're using.

I use DuckDuckGo and am well satified with its results.

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On 2025-06-12 4:07 p.m., Jason H wrote:

On 12/06/2025 20:03, Farley Flud wrote:

I have tried the alternatives to Google search but they all
come up with inferior results.

In spite of its evil, grubbing nature, Google search results
remain the best.

Why, tell me why, cannot anyone else do better?

Not strictly a search tool, but I've had some mileage out of Perplexity. You
ask it a question (as you would any other AI chatbot) and it will do the searching for you, provide a list of sources and summarise quite nicely.

--
A PICKER OF UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES

Personally I like the brave.com search. It combines a bit of AI answer with
traditional Google style results. If you go to search.brave.com, and click
the address bar it should give you an option to install the search plugin
on your Firefox or whatever browser you're using.

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Nothing seriously better than Google.

But I'd suggest DDG as a proxy.

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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

Nothing seriously better than Google.

But I'd suggest DDG as a proxy.

DDG is a proxy for Bing, not Google. I'm happy with the results you
get with DDG, sometimes Google might be better, sometimes worse.
Google do seem better at finding an obscure page when you search
for an exact entire paragraph from it, but that's not a common
usage case.

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On 2025-06-17 1:13 a.m., Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 6/16/25 21:59, LV-426 wrote:

On 2025-06-12 4:07 p.m., Jason H wrote:

On 12/06/2025 20:03, Farley Flud wrote:

I have tried the alternatives to Google search but they all
come up with inferior results.

In spite of its evil, grubbing nature, Google search results
remain the best.

Why, tell me why, cannot anyone else do better?

Not strictly a search tool, but I've had some mileage out of
Perplexity. You
ask it a question (as you would any other AI chatbot) and it will do the >>> searching for you, provide a list of sources and summarise quite nicely. >>> --
A PICKER OF UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES

Personally I like the brave.com search. It combines a bit of AI answer with >> traditional Google style results. If you go to search.brave.com, and click >> the address bar it should give you an option to install the search plugin
on your Firefox or whatever browser you're using.

I use DuckDuckGo and am well satified with its results.

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.10- Linux 6.6.90- Plasma 5.27.11

Yes, I also use DuckDuckGo as well. Both are good alternatives.

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:20:21 +0200, Matthew Camilleri wrote:

If anyone has the time to develop one, servers/power to crawl and storage space to store the indexed things, it can be done.

Or, you can use SearXNG. It's a meta search engine so it pulls results from Google and others if you tell it to, like Bing.

I've been trying some other sites and I have experienced another surprise.

Google, unless I enter very specific search terms, does not list
my personal web site. However, Bing and DuckDuckGo do list my web
site even with much less specific terms, albeit on the second or third page.

My personal web site is only about 2 years old and it should have been
already well crawled by all the search engines. But Google's algorithms, AFAIK, are based on a ranking that depends on inter-site linking.
IOW, the more that other sites link to a given web site the higher a
listing it gets.

I don't care too much about page ranking, but I do expect that the
somewhat arcane information that my web site provides will be found
if certain search results are requested, and with Google so far it
is not.



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