It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse.

Here are a collection of the best search engines I know, please add more to the list.

If no more high quality search engines exist, would it be possible to host your own?

EDIT: Some new discoveries. The addon uBlacklist and filters can block super SEO sites from appearing in search.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
    314·
    10 months ago

    I switched to ChatGPT and find it superior to the mess Google and others have made of their search engines. I could never go back to a regular search after using AI.

      • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        I have not found that to be the case at all. While not perfect, it is miles above Google Search and has not more errors than the misinformation any search will yield. It is a significant business advantage as well and those who are not embracing are missing out.

      • Tinister@kbin.social
        23·
        10 months ago

        It’s okay for things that are pretty low-stakes. If you ask for cooking or cleaning advice and it hallucinates you’re still at square zero regardless.

    • cll7793@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I found the original GPT-4 to be great at technical search questions! Though unfortunately the quality has been getting worse ever since.

      • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        10 months ago

        I use ChatGPT 4+ extensively for coding and it has only gotten better over the course of the pastyear for me. I am really surprised how smart it is actually, and of course how silly and delusional it can be at times too which is always so weird but even that has improved. Its intelligence has different quirks than a human for sure.