Will I switch back to Google as default search engine within 90 days?
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I somewhat impulsively picked a new search engine last night after reading about how Google deliberately worsened their search results to cause repeat searching thereby increasing total searches and thereby ad revenue.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

In the past I have used Ecosia and Bing for a few months after getting frustrated with the SEO slop Google was feeding me, but ultimately switched back to Google for reasons I can't even remember. I do not care about privacy in searching. If anything, I actually enjoy the targeted ads I get from being tracked.

Last night I switched to Qwant after 5 minutes of reading about my options, and liking the results in a few test searches. Prior to last night, I never even heard of Qwant.

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Yandex seemed like it was mostly a tool to download pirated media. Perplexity was great until a hallucination today made me lose trust in it. I'll still use it sometimes but not as a daily driver. Qwant was very solid, but requiring a captcha multiple times a day is unreasonable. Back to Google for me.

I switched to perplexity as my default search engine on anything that gives me the option and Yandex where I couldn't choose perplexity. Perplexity is better then I was expecting. I don't even know what Yandex is yet.

I did like Qwant but it is blocked by my job's wifi, and constantly made me do captcha, and as a last straw seemed to be adding more AI slop to it's results in the past few weeks.

Do you anticipate trying Perplexity.ai before switching back to Google? It has a free version.

@WilliamGunn Sure. I'm happy to try suggestions that seem reasonable.

@WilliamGunn Perplexity was a good suggestion, thanks! I wish Chrome an android would let me make it my default search engine.

@WrongoPhD That's a feature request of mine, too. Firefox has an assistant sidebar thing that's kinda helpful.

If you grow unhappy with Quant might you try another search engine like kagi before switching back to Google?

@AlexanderTheGreater despite how frivolously I spend mana, I would not spend actual money on a search engine. I also would not try anything that I have tried in the past and did not like, which includes DuckDuckGo in addition to the others I mentioned. I might try another one if Qwant fails me, but only if I could find something free that I haven't tried before and seems reasonable.

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