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.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    Technically the best one was Altavista.

    But they are long gone because they came from the old academic & idealistic internet and they never learned to survive in that internet where money rules.

    • cll7793@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Altavista was ahead of their time. The modern internet desperately needs a technical search engine.

    • Deceptichum@kbin.social
      1·
      6 months ago

      From a very old memory, Google blew AltaVista out of the water no?

      I mean we all switched for a reason and it wasn’t the cute logo.

  • kd45@lemm.ee
    1·
    6 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
      1·
      6 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.

    • Dave@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months 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.