tanteJul 15, 2025
Been looking at Kagi for search which isn't bad but I don't want or need all the LLM stuff they put everywhere.
Is there a comparable (potentially also paid) search engine that does not spend their income building another LLM based browser or whatever?
Show threadDJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab
@tante https://www.ecosia.org/ hasn’t been pissing me off since I set it as default search provider in firefox on my machines…
The greenest browser on Earth

The Ecosia Browser has built-in green features that make it simple to be climate active every day. We produce 25Wh of renewable energy each day you browse.

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Show threadcomputer mausJul 15, 2025
@djsundog @tante they are also full of llm bullshit - which is especially ironic because it is supposed to be a climate friendly search engine lol
Show threadDJ Sundog from the *new* toot-labJul 15, 2025
@kate @tante oh, that’s a shame - I haven’t been inundated by slop so I figured it wasn’t running down that hill. dang. thanks for the info. grabbing my lantern and setting back out into the world to find an honest search engine too, I guess.
Show threadMike [SEC=OFFICIAL]Jul 15, 2025
@djsundog @kate @tante Qwant is working ok for me on the minimal crap front, although they do keep asking me to pay them to add AI slop which is actively discouraging me from supporting them in any meaningful way.
Show threadcomputer mausJul 15, 2025
@mike @djsundog @tante i like searxng, because it's an open-source meta search engine, so it doesn't try to sell me anything and if one of the underlying search engines stops working for whatever reason it still continues to work
Show threadBenjamin BraatzJul 15, 2025
@djsundog @tante … but it is “only” a proxy for Google and Bing as far as I can see. Depends on how fundamentally you want to get away from those if that is a solution.