[shevy-java]

I don't think I have used ask.com in the past (perhaps many years ago though), but now I am becoming increasingly troubled here - does this mean we depend even more on google search? And it constantly gets worse too. That's concerning. We need some real alternatives that don't just suddenly vanish.

[bxvvgd]

There are alternatives that dont depend on Google, like duckduckgo but the results are still not as good in more specific questions (in my experience)

[delis-thumbs-7e]

https://kagi.com/

[raptor99]

https://search.brave.com

[jpadkins]

ask.com hasn't been an independent search engine for decades. Its results and ads came from other companies.