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Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by amarcheschi on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:34AM (#43318511)
At this point, basically most of my searches on the web are either through brave search, or on Google followed by "... Reddit". At least in the not so distant past, I've found qwant to be slightly worse than google
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by rcMgD2BwE72F on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:44AM (#43319982)
Why not try Kagi? Serious question.
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by amarcheschi on Monday March 10, 2025 @09:06AM (#43320179)
Honestly, I do not feel like needing something "more" than what I use right now. I'd say that reddit suffices for (almost) everything I need that I can't find with a simple search on brave search or Google
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by jorvi on Monday March 10, 2025 @10:07AM (#43320795)
Kagi allows you to do things like inject CSS to filter out pre-translated Reddit results (although it is on their radar to make this a default setting).

Here's the CSS snippet hiding translations:

(technically you could inject it as a userscript but that's a bit more involved on mobile)

  /*
  Hide pre-translated webpages.
  "sri-group" is main result, "__srgi"  are sub results.
  You can append `:not(:has(a[href*="tl=en"]))` to allow English translations.
  */
  :is(div.__srgi, div.sri group._ext_r):has(a[href*="tl="]) {
    display: none !important;
  }

Although the main draw is being able to uprank, downrank and block sites in your results. They also do things like deprioritizing and labeling AI in image search, and concatenating listicles ("10 best Android note taking apps") under a single header.
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by amarcheschi on Monday March 10, 2025 @10:12AM (#43320856)
Ok the points you made are cool
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by notpushkin on Monday March 10, 2025 @12:37PM (#43322331)
Userstyles are always nice, and if an that’s officially endorsed use that sounds sick!

> Although the main draw is being able to uprank, downrank and block sites in your results

I think Brave Search has this too now? Not as straightforward – you can only change site rank when you’re on the search page, and only for the domains currently on that page for some reason – even though the adjustments you’ve made will apply to all searches from now on. Oh, and it also only has uprank and block.

Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by dingnuts on Monday March 10, 2025 @10:04AM (#43320769)
Reddit comments are mostly bots shilling ideology or products nowadays though. At least that's the impression I get.
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by amarcheschi on Monday March 10, 2025 @10:12AM (#43320853)
It's still okay for specific niches or local communities imho
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by Fnoord on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:16PM (#43322730)
I'm a paying customer for Kagi, and I like it very much, but I don't use Google because it is part of FAMAG. As European, having a functioning European index is worth a lot more than Kagi. Though Kagi themselves also are building their own index, which is great.
Re:Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European searc... by tensor on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:58PM (#43323395)
Kagi uses Google and Bing so no reason they won't add this new index to the mix, if they can gain access. The more indexes the better!