r/searchengines

Every year there’s another “must-do” SEO tactic, but some things just don’t move the needle anymore.

What’s one SEO task you’ve completely dropped, and what do you do instead?

So I saw a post about what the best search engine is but it’s from 2024 and I wonder if the info on here is the same.

anywho what do you think the best search engine is, and “is google still the best search engine?”

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/1ijy45h/what_is_the_best_search_engine_is_google_still/

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So that, for example, every other search result isn't Amazon. I don't want to just exclude Amazon from the search since Amazon isn't the only problem and I do want the sites to pop up still, just not repeatedly.

Hi! I want to use a new search engine (instead of Google), which one should I use:

Brave

DuckDuckGo

Startpage

I need a fasr, secure, and accurate search engine, which isn't collecting user's data and gives good search results (like Google).

Thanks for advice!

Made this quick lil video mainly to talk about some of the flaws with Google and propose an alternative, my own search engine. But I posted it here because I wanna know what you guys think about Google's current state.

IMO, the only reason Google isn't dead is because most people don't really understand what's going on behind the results. A lot of people who grew up with Google just see it as the search engine without thinking about the amount of tracking, personalization, ads, SEO manipulation, AI-generated content, and a boat load of other stuff influencing what they actually see.

Hi All,

Need your help.

I own and maintaining 300+ blogging sites since 5 years. From last one year am facing deindexing issue with many sites. Sites are getting deindexed from Google SERP. I have tried many ways to re-index those pages of sites but nothing works.

anyone have solution for this issue? Please suggest

Came across Startpage search engine last week, its a privacy focused search engine.

it gives you google quality search results since startpage pays google for access to their search index.

So you get google quality search results without being tracked, no ip logging, no exposing device fingerprints.. you are completely anonymous to google while getting google results.

I feel like i found a hidden gem or am i missing something? what your thoughts on startpage?

My bf created an account on yandex. Never heard of it before. What would he be using it for?

Hey, could someone help me out? Someone I’ve been talking to has been sending me pics of his workouts and stuff, but I’m suspecting that he’s catfishing me. Is there any reverse image search engine that would be best for me to plug his pics into and see if they’re stolen? He keeps his face out of them and I can’t tell if inconsistencies I’m seeing are actual inconsistencies or I’m being crazy. I don’t care about his physique, I care about being lied to. Let me know, thanks!

I never thought I’d see the day when Google search actually went backwards.
Google search is no longer useful. The attempts to make it more AI driven has just made me more frustrated. It was fun while the party lasted.
Goodbye Google search.

I heard both good and bad things about both:

Ive heard startpage uses google results which seem sloppy.

Ive heard qwant is connected to the EU which has passed chat control

Ive heard duckduckgo is connected to microsoft and Israel.

What should I do?

I heard that duckduckgo sells your data to Microsoft, are they now trustworthy again or are there better alternatives? Is degoog.org better?

I would like it to have a focus on privacy and it not to sell my data

I am forever fatigued by the endless number of AI-generated slop sites and blogs that clog up search results as of late. DuckDuckGo has a noai-search that does decent at filtering out these slop-blogs, but it still misses a decent amount of them. The idea I had was to simply find a way to exclude websites that were created after 2024/2025 from results as this would include most of the AI/Bot-slop sites that have been pumped out over the last year or two. For clarity, I'd want to filter out websites that were created/registered after a certain date, not content that was posted after a certain date. I know I will inevitably exclude some legitimate blogs from the results, but that's an issue I'm willing to deal with.

Example: If I search for "bike with 29in tires", I would be okay with a YouTube video posted in 2026 showing up in results, but I would not be okay with a blog site that was registered in 2025 showing up.

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this? Any search I've tried to do on the matter was, as expected, clogged up with ai-blogs that were only related to my search in terms of a single term match. If it's not possible, I understand, but I gotta ask.