Anyone got a recommendation for a good web search engine? The one I used to use has decided to pivit towards providing a chatbot with a crappy search engine attached that isn't really working properly.

I really don't have any idea what they're doing at google. I had a recent instance where I was searching for a filename that was on an open source mirror in plenty of places, and Google said it knows nothing about it... there's, like, zero possiblity they don't have any of the mirror dirlistings indexed.

@hanno @kagihq ?

@hanno #duckduckgo

https://duckduckgo.com/

@buherator @hanno @kagihq Another vote for @kagihq

@hanno I'm afraid there is a general decline of index quality at all major providers (G,Bing,Yandex,???), while alternative engines mostly rely on those. I also noticed that verbatim search is basically dead as not all content is indexed in its original form so even if you know exactly what you are looking for, the index entry is just not there to find it.

@hanno I've been using Start Page and it's a decent alternative to Google search and DDG.