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Google is becoming impossible to use. Any search term comes up with the SEO websites that have 10 ways to not do what I want to do.

Are there any alternatives to Google anymore that isn't chatGPT search?

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https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

https://www.startpage.com

https://www.qwant.com

I block everything I dont like: I add these to Ublock origin, my filters.

I get a much cleaner search results. I do this for qwant as well

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="amazon."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="amazon."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="pinterest."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="pinterest."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="tiktok."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="tiktok."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="gemini.google."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="gemini.google."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="deepmind.google."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="deepmind.google."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="ebay."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="ebay."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="etsy."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="etsy."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="pinterest."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="pinterest."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="youtube."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="youtube."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="linkedin."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="linkedin."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*=".ai"])
  startpage.*##a[href*=".ai"]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="meta."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="meta."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="imgur."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="imgur."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="x."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="x."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="google."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="google."]:upward(1)

  startpage.*##.g:has(a[href*="facebook."])
  startpage.*##a[href*="facebook."]:upward(1)

Marginalia Search (https://marginalia-search.com/) is an indie search engine that prioritizes small websites and non-commercial content. It may not be a perfect alternative to Google—the index is much smaller—but it is much "cleaner".

Kagi is very good at this too.

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