thethrilloftime69Mar 1

What search engine do you guys use?

https://feddit.online/c/asklemmy/p/1490284/what-search-engine-do-you-guys-use

Show threadDominusOfMegadeus
Kagi. I knowmit gets trash talked for several, reasons, but I’ve used ecosia, duckduckgo, and now I’m back to, Kagi. I just like it better all around.
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Show threadtheherkMar 1
Been a Kagi user for about 6 months now. Not one negative thing to say. So refreshing to have good results again.
Show threadmatsdisMar 1
Kagi user since 2022, according to my account. I’ll admit that I rarely ever cross-check with other search engines. I like their assistants too (they are basically re-selling access to all big LLMs in their Ultimate tier). But you don’t really need those, what keeps me there are the good search results. (And the ability to easily block/raise whole domains on the results.)
Show threadnjordomirMar 5
I love being able to flip on the "forums"or “fediverse” scope when I’m looking for opinions or recommendations. It saves me having to scroll through a bunch of resellers, manual reporters, fake review sites, AI listicals, etc.
Show threadone_old_coderMar 1

It feels like spam to mention Kagi since it’s all over the place (even on Hacker News), but I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning and it make me a “2x programmer” due to their good results.

If I had no money left, I would try SearXNG.

Show threadDominusOfMegadeusMar 1
I tired it. I’m not unintelligent, and it was far too complex of a setup for me. I did not care for it. But that’s just me.
Show threadCasterialMar 2
For programming questions why not use an LLM? The days of googling a specific problem are long done. LLM+Documentation is all you really need now days.
Show threadone_old_coderMar 2
I learn a lot while I search. LLMs may or may not hallucinate, and I’m not learning.
Show threadCasterialMar 2

Depends how you use LLMs. I didn’t say use LLM to solve the problem, I have it breakdown the documentation and make it easier to read.

Stackoverflow also has incorrect answers always marked as correct and is t a great source to learn from, the best way to learn is just reading documentation and having breakpoints to read the data coming in.