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@neil @liw Yes, that's about where I'm at too. I find myself avoiding search engines whenever there's an alternative and building my own bookmark map of the Internet. It's ridiculous.
Google genuinely made the Internet better, for a while. I even liked their original advertising model. Showing me clearly marked ads for something I'm actually searching for is helpful. It's like looking in the classified ads of a newspaper. It made them billions - why couldn't that be enough? *sigh*
@dentangle @neil @liw I use Ecosia and it's usually ok. No AI, clearly marked sponsored results. The search results used to be a bit worse than Google but Google's death spiral means that Ecosia is now a lot better and predictable.