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Comment by jeffwask | Hacker News Reader

Google search has been going the way of Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Hotbot... for a while. More junk results, more paid junk content, more work flow breaking changes, can't copy, copy a url returns a google nightmare soup url, etc...less and less customer friendly every day. It's time for a new king.

Been mostly using DDG but excited to start fooling around with the new Bing.

If you told 2013 me I would be binging in 2023 I would have not believed you.

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Yeah, outside of just habit, I am not entirely sure why someone would still be sticking to Google. I am using Brave Search, and its results are just as good as Google's. I am planning on running my own searx instance at some point to run it all myself before long

Bought a Kagi sub in January after hearing about it on HN for a few months and I've been loving it.

Was content DDG user for the past few years just to slip the Google leash, but the Kagi results are A+; definitely prefer to DDG.

Edit: Though ofc for Kagi, one needs to be logged in for all searches, not just NSFW image searches. :)

I'll take a look. Thanks.

Whack-a-mole. The SEO-bots will be after Bing and ChatGPT soon enough.

It's not just SEO and bots. It's deliberate choice in how they develop the application and what features they are adding. Every feature they have added in the last few years has been user hostile.

Won't the new Bing be used by DDG? I thought DDG was on top of Bing already.

They use the bing index at least

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