cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/70198876
27 days
It really do be like that
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- anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish26 days
Does it index its own data? Bing apparently sucks at that part, especially becoming filled with AI as farm results and slop videos.
- 27 days
Ddg results are so good. I dont get the hate on them. I try to go back to Google and the results are unusable.
- 27 days
DDg for me is annoying because it isn’t localised when I search something.
That’s my own fault though for not sharing my location.
I use it for everything
- 27 days
I specifically add my location to the search when im looking for local stuff otherwise I want international results. So on google I’d search bottle store but on ddg I search bottle store auckland [suburb] because it doesnt know where i am. Or I use the !maps bang to search on google maps.
- OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish27 days
I haven’t had much problems with it? Can’t really remember the last time I felt the need to try a different backup search engine. And, usually, if I did, I wouldn’t find what I was looking for there, either.
- 27 days
Really? For some reason, I really prefer DDG’s results over Google’s. Too much SEO spam for Google now (especially with AI).
DDG has this Reddit+ stack overflow thing that I quite like!
For generic factual stuff, I default to wikipedia. For opinions, it tends to be Reddit/Lemmy. If I have questions that are more of “tell me why my understanding of XYZ is wrong”, then LLMs (the big ones) tend to be quite useful (yeah yeah, hate on me for this as much as you want).
- 27 days
It’s Google ten years ago, which was already shit. They need to go further back on the timeline.
- 27 days
Starpage, Qwant, and Brave search are all out there, just waiting for you.
- imadethis@fedinsfw.appEnglish27 days
Duck duck go is made a LOT better if you specify a date range before SEO became as stupid as it did. AIslop just made the seo bullshit articles/pages go from bad to fubar.
- 27 days
I caved and switched when Google started giving me a full large chat window (not even just a small AI overview) by default when I ran a search.
- 27 days
If you dont want any ai switch over to noai.duckduckgo.com took me to long to see that it exsists.
- 27 days
I meant even I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo. DDG asks you about whether and how often you want AI answers
- 27 days
Yeah I didn’t like DDG either. Kagi is worth the price to have a better google-free experience,
- sompreno@lemmy.zipEnglish27 days
Sure but duck duck go is bing with a proxy and has been known in the past to make acceptions for microsoft
Brave search is a fully independed search engine
At the if the day both services are closed source software from for profit companies
- 27 days
It’s a 2x2 grid of vertical 2-panel comics. Could be made clearer by dividing them with thicker lines.
- 27 days
Or just having them left to right like a sane person. (Or… I guess you could be from Japan or some other country where you write top to bottom… But it’s in English!)
- H Ramus@piefed.socialEnglish27 days
I found Degoog to be easier to deploy for my non-technical skills. A docker container and I was done.
- H Ramus@piefed.socialEnglish22 days
Can very well be but wasn’t my experience. I also prefer the visual layout of degoog.
27 daysLibrewolf + Kagi. I’ve looked at SearXNG but the Kagi search results ‘just work’ and let’s me tweak it how I want, so I haven’t felt motivated to bother with the deployment.
- 27 days
Who tf ever says “google is the best”? Most chrome users are “I just want my shit to work and move on with my day” type.
- 26 days
Ecosia and Qwant is where it’s at - they are creating an independent search index to be able to ditch Bing and Google. And Ecosia is trying to save the planet and have so far planted more than 250 million trees - just an added benefit.
if they are not using Bing anymore maybe i can configure to use them in SearXNG
- 25 days
As far as I know, some users (French and German?) use the independent index and the rest are still on Google and Bing, however it’s been a while since I have heard news about it, so that might have changed.
Ecosia.org is a good search engine, right now they still use google/bing for most of their queries but are developing their own search engine. Plus they are very ethical, green energy, profits go to projects helping nature, option to turn off AI results/summaries, the list goes on…
- Eggman@thelemmy.clubEnglish25 days
Ecosia is not that great for privacy “Your IP address and search terms are automatically shared with our search partners, Microsoft Bing or Google, when you search.” https://www.ecosia.org/privacy
As soon as they have their own search engine we can hope the privacy will be better. Nevertheless the other reasons to use ecosia still stand
Almost too good, I find.
I tend to have safe search off, because I’m a grown up. But it can be kind of annoying to search for a completely innocuous term, only for the image results to somehow be rammed full of people getting rammed full.
Hello. I beat my meat like an unruly son. Bing is still the king of porn results.
- 26 days
No. Qwant always used its own index but it used Bing in addition as their own index wasn’t finished. However, since 2025 it only uses Staan, the index developed in cooperation with Ecosia.
- 26 days
“Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and 33% of German queries by the end of the year”
so not all queries yet unfortunately
Low and mid have the browser above the search engine, high breaks consistency with the engine over the browser 😔
