- Don’t use Google
But instead use…?
[this is where you add your constructive options]
DuckDuckGo on Firefox.
Ecosia search. For the trees. Think of the trees.
Duck duck go. I switched a year ago and haven’t missed google at all.
I’d recommend kagi or ddg like the other people, but brave search is also quite good, I like the fact it has a independent index
The quality of Google search results has been rapidly declining over the last few years. It’s not really even worth using anymore.
It’s not so much that Google is declining, but the entire Internet. Google just hasn’t figured out how to route around the damage.
Try adding “before:2023” to your searches to see what I mean.
Lol … no … Google and all the others are filtering all the good things out !
They are incentivised to suggest sites with Google Ads in them.
Yeah. But, that workaround on the article improves a lot.
I’ve been using Startpage for a long time, which is basically this + no tracking.
Google should allow blacklists. The. A lot of sites will just be croudsourced to the round file.
Whoogle is the answer
There’s a much faster way. Just put this in your hosts file:
0.0.0.0 google.com
Custom search engines are limited to PC browsers only. Unfortunately, the mobile versions of these browsers will not let you set up a custom search, so you’re stuck tapping on the Web view in all your mobile search queries.
someone hasn’t heard of Firefox on Android.
Are there any extensions that fix Google on the mobile version of FireFox? It doesn’t have all the same extensions available on PC, where I do have one that fixes Google.
The “web” category thing the article talks about is not an actual fix.
depends on what you mean by “fixing”, I guess. I just resorted to not using Google at all, and use uBlacklist to filter out garbage websites from my search results.
Yes, it works on Firefox Android and Ios. So, that article is not 100% correct
Howtogeek is not exactly known for good journalism so it’s fine, I guess.