This may be a helpful graphic when deciding on a search engine

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

You get a list of results that looks a bit like Google without the AI answer up top and without any ads. There is a “quick answer” button you can click towards the top of the results that WILL generate an AI response but it isn’t visible by default

I signed up for 3 free months of Kagi recently. I don’t think I do enough searching to justify paying for a search engine but I have been pleased with search results for what I asked and nothing more.

I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m starting to think he’s not a very nice person. /s

I’ve been using Orion on iOS and been happy with it so far

Pretty sure that’s the point

I’m so embarrassed

When I was signing up for something, (maybe Lemmy?) I got caught in a CAPTCHA where I had to identify street lights. Every time I clicked one the picture would change and there would be more street lights. Eventually I gave up, clicked Submit and it let me in.

This is a link that might help explain it: https://stellarium-web.org/