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.

    • @Scrollone@feddit.it
      2•1 year 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.

    • Hildegarde
      1•1 year 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.

    • Dave
      1•1 year ago

      DDG is ok for most searches, but they have definitely hit a plateau. Programming search results are quite poor, for instance.

      I’ve started paying for kagi. Their results are just way better at this point.