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There are other search engines than google. I really have no problem finding what Im looking for except when I use google.

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Genuine question - this isn't some "gotcha" sarcastic comment - but what search engines do you use that are an actual improvement? The only one I know is Marginalia, which I love, but is more of a discovery tool for old sites than for actual relevant information.

For a range of questions - ones which are complex to distill for google, I'm using ChatGPT occasionally.

I recently wanted to understand better the position of the rising and setting sun, and it did an excellent job of explaining where my mental model of the sun was inaccurate.

Kagi is the big one. LLMs are useful for a specific subset of topics and questions. But mostly I do use KAgi

Google created the situation, but it's not the reason why data is held behind login/pay-walls everywhere across the net.

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