Duckduckgo is based on microsoft bing. Startpage is based on google. People recommend searx (aggregates multiple search engines and free) and kagi (paid).

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I use yandex pretty regularly

most often i just search wikipedia directly and check sources on pages there, i didnt even realise this was how i use the web now until recently

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, I just realised I'm the same, haha

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

i have them blocked with ublock

[–] abc@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Literally just use

google.com/search?udm=14&q=searchstring

That's all you need.

You can make that a default search engine in whatever browser you use so that it always defaults to that URL. See here for Firefox.

Note, if you do not have the udm=14 the AI overview is going to show up. As someone else mentioned, blocking with uBlock also works and is probably easier overall since the default search engine/bookmark trick can be finicky to work with.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Innovation!

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I stopped using google and chrome a year ago and I never really missed them.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

&udm=14 extension for firefox (incl mobile) will get rid of that and all the other widgets

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Just ask the AI to summarise the text, silly! /s

[–] isame@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Appending -ai to your search seems to get rid of most of it.