• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’m using qwant as my default now. It does well for most searches, but for map related things I still use google.

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        Which is just bing with a few extra editorial changes that aren’t really transparent.

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            6 months ago

            I also wanted to mention that DDG doesn’t really say what editorial changes they make to the results. I would like to see more transparency.

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            6 months ago

            Only recently started using searngx. I would love to see more search engines implement their own indexing and ranking, instead of relying on other engines.

            But I am aware that making a good search engine is hard. Even with all their flaws, google and Bing still have the best results, which is why most other engines rely on their results.

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      Kagi… It’s so good you forget Google.

      And what do you mean “even mozilla”… There are money deals between these Google and mozilla. Google pays mozilla a lot of money to set Google as default search.

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        6 months ago

        It is so good that when I use Google on someone else’s computer, I’m surprised at how bad Google has become.

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        6 months ago

        It’s a paid service, so it’d be a bad default for a web browser. Not saying it’s a bad search engine; saying that it’s a bad search engine default for the every day folk who just installed a web browser.

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      If you don’t mind having to occasionally refresh the page due to search engine timeout, a public Searxng metasearch engine. I use one just to straight up bypass having to go to any specific search engine. Also allows me to see results from both gøøg|e and b*ng without having to go to either.

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      6 months ago

      As the default as it pays for web development. You can change this to DuckDuckGo in settings and I strongly recommend that you do.

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      6 months ago

      startpage, had the Best results for me in the last couple of months, much better then google. and the anonymous view feature is handy and neat

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      6 months ago

      i’m using a mix of ddg startpage and occasionally yandex, and its been good so far.

      if you have more good suggestions drop em here.