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.

  • kd45@lemm.ee
    15·
    10 months ago

    Many people keep asserting that DuckDuckGo is as useless as Google, but I haven’t had a single issue with it. Could it be a regional thing?

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      2·
      10 months ago

      I don’t live in the US and the regional results for my country are worse on DuckDuckGo than on Google.

      But still, I noticed Google’s quality drastically falling down in recent years.

    • overcast5348@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      It’s not as bad as Google yet, but I find myself getting terrible or no results quite a few times.

      Ex: if I’m looking for a niche blog post from example.com, just entering the keywords doesn’t return the right result, if anything at all. I have to add “site:example.com” and the right link shows up on top.

      It’s kinda amusing when this happens, but I keep using ddg anyway because bing and Google had the same issue for the same keywords when I ran into the issue.

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      Ddg cannot filter out results. If you don’t want pages containing the term, term you add -term to your search and those results should not be included.

      Ddg doesn’t do this. I did a brief test of many search engines, and only google and mojeek filtered results correctly.

      Edit: yadex seems to have working filtering.