• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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      I have noticed google doing a bunch more monopoly stuff since they weren’t willing to pay the government not to be called a monopoly, I guess they aren’t afraid of being a

      monopoly anymore since they have been declared a monopoly hay did you know google was legally ruled a monopoly?

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    Nobody needs to die just because Google let out an inappropriate fart.

    I guess people would create pages full of links to their real pages.

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    Despite what Google wants you to think, organic search is not the only way to get traffic. Fuck em. Time to disallow Googlebot in robots.txt and noindex your content.

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      And also to explicitly feed garbage when the useragent is that of the googlebot. And while we are at it, do the same with a few other UAs too. You know which I mean.

      Of course, that may not be feasible for everyone, but I do know that my visitors are not coming from google.

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      Kagi seems very promising but it’s paid. Most people will never pay for a search engine.

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        Yeah, $15 a month for search is a bit difficult to swallow for me as well.

        I wonder if there is another business model, or alternatively a non-profit or foundation could start up a search engine.

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      I don’t know about federated, but there is SearXNG, which is FOSS. There are plenty of public instances or you can run your own instance.

      If you are willing to pay money ($5-10 USD) then I recommend Kagi. In my opinion Kagi is worth the money, as it it provides much better results and has a lot more features. Like SearXNG, it is also ad-free.