Google begins recommending DuckDuckGo.

You can use these instead of Google:

1. SearXNG
2. MetaGer
3. Brave
4. Mojeek
5. PriEco
6. SwissCows
7. Yandex {It's really good for Torrenting}
8. LibreX & LibreY {Gives you google search results in a privacy-respecting way Without JavaScript}

Never use google to search. There are many other options and all of them are better than google.

At this point I’ve been using DDG for 7 years as my main search engine. It’s gotten better while Google has become a joke.

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I fucking hate how these companies get so bloated and then start doing whatever the fuck they want.

Me, to Google right now:

Feels good not to care anymore about the unrelenting enshittification of Reddit, Twitter and Google since I switched away from them.

I remember interviewing at Google years ago (if you're keeping score, it was 2012/2013 just before their stock hiccupped and my onboarding was killed as I was only a 97% fit), and the guy was religious about page load times. "We cut 200 lines of code if it'll give us a millisecond of page load speed", that kind of thing.

How they've fallen.

May I suggest https://mojeek.com as a privacy respecting alternative that actually has its own web crawlers and indexers.

Doing this to combat bots like they aren't also using bots to scrape data from the internet is interesting.

I wonder how this affects modified/custom search engines (like udm14).

I've been using search xng for about 6 months now. It's been great

Just makes me realize that I haven't used Google search in like over a year now because I use Kagi. Even before that i was using searx-ng.

Honestly, JS is such a core part of the web, I'm surprised it took this long.