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Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine (gizmodo.com)

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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

I used to love Google, the company, the search, the tech. But god damn if in the last 5 years it hasn’t become the most insane ad delivery tool in existence. Sometimes when I Google something it’s multiple full pages of ads before I actually see what I’m looking for. I switched to duckduckgo.

[-] Steve@communick.news 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Should look into Kagi. No ads at all, for $5/month

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's a good idea in terms of privacy and reliability. You need an account to use it

[-] Steve@communick.news 1 points 1 year ago

In terms of privacy that could be debatable.
But what do you mean by reliability?

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

DDG is essentially Bing though. The results aren’t the greatest. If Bing decides to ban a site, it’s banned on DDG.

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Try presearch: it has way better results than DDG

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like a Brave-esqe crypto platform:

In addition to offering users a great search experience, Presearch is dedicated to creating significant value for marketers who would like to reach Presearch users. Advertisers can stake their PRE to a keyword, and whichever advertiser stakes the most tokens will have its ads displayed when a user searches on the term selected. Advertisers confer the most external value on PRE, so their success is very important to the ecosystem.

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

True, for the browser. But their search engine works in any browser and has the best quality search results

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The site has ads too. Nothing specific to the app.

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