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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by jeroenhd on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:20AM (#37378352)
Duckduckgo is terrible for most of my search queries, it seems to suffer from the same SEO spam problems Google does. Yandex can't be trusted because of its Russian affiliations, which is quite sad because Yandex is quite good.

I've started using Bing Chat for search queries thst only produce spam results and while Bing lies and misleads in its direct answers, the links it provides to support its statements are usually quite good.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by qzx_pierri on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:56AM (#37380050)
What do you have against Russia?
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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by jeroenhd on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:07AM (#37380122)
Its ongoing invasion of and atrocities in Ukraine, mostly, but aside from that the authoritarian regime (and outlawing the free press) also doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Russian companies.
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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by Twixes on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:08AM (#37380126)
Hmm, might be the way Russia is effectively a dictatorship, the heavily enforced political censorship, or perhaps the major war they started against another independent European nation.
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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by stjohnswarts on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:59AM (#37380535)
The attempted genocide of Ukraine, maybe? That seems to be #1 for most people right now.
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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by hughesjj on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:54PM (#37401168)
Kagi?
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