Kagi.

The downside is that it costs $10 per month.

The upside is:

• Privacy first
• You can pin websites to the top of results, promote them so they appear higher, demote them so they appear lower, or have them completely removed
• Lenses - quickly tell Kagi what type of results you want (News sources, academic articles, forum posts, programming sites, small web, etc.)
• Snaps - search shortcuts kinda like bangs. Eg, typing @w is the same as typing site:wikipedia.com
• An actual good AI summary. Completely unobtrusive - only activated when you press the button, doesn’t overextrapolate your request, and will only source the same results that you get from the search
• Direct image results

When I first migrated a couple years ago, it was a bit worse than Google but pretty close. Nowadays, I find it to be much much better. It’s honestly close to how Google was back in 2015 before they made it garbage.

Kagi’s summaries are great.

They’re hidden by default, requiring you to click the button first. They don’t extrapolate too much. And their sources will be the exact same links you got from the search.

Y’know what would be the best way to get rid of Hamas?

Provide aid and policing. Help establish long-term stability. Prove that you’re on the same side as the people. Treat them as humans and not cannon fodder, unaffected casualties, or shields.

Basically, the opposite of what Israel is doing.

This is what boggles my mind when the right attacks anyone who is Pro-Palestine. Almost none are in favor of Hamas - they just recognize that most Palestinians are innocent people who just want to live in peace. We don’t have to kill hundreds of thousands of Palestinians or create a massive diaspora.

The war feels a lot as if Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were on opposing sides. Yeah, I’d want Mussolini to win, but why did it have to be him?

Hamas needs to be eliminated in order for long term peace to be established but we all know Israel isn’t going to stop there.

Okay, sure, but how often does it spam ads?

Does it keep asking me to register for something that either shouldn’t need registering or exist at all? Does it tell me to subscribe for a service every time I open up the terminal?

We all need one or two ads, as a treat.