I use DDG and it's fine? Just use a different search engine
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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In my experience DDG and Google are pretty close to the same quality. IE neither is good.
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The old "Bing is just like Google" ad copy is getting truer and truer in a bad way.
This is such an apt analogy. I only use it because I have a couple hundred tabs open in Chrome and I am too lazy to port them all over to FF. Even then, I usually have to be really manipulative to the search algorithm to get what I want from general searches and heaven forbid I want to find something that is even the least but taboo. I just use DuckDuckGo for those searches, though it struggles sometimes too.
I know I need to swap over to FF entirely, but there is just so much, from shifting my PW bank to the hundreds of tabs and thousands of bookmarks. Does anyone know of any FOSS or FF extensions that can smooth that process?
Bit-warden for password manager, FOSS cross platform. FF should import all the bookmarks. I'd save all open tabs to a new bookmark folder before transfer then open that folder after.
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This is why I have been using aselfhosted searxng instance for over a year and half now.
It's still just Google and ddg and whatnot though.,?
Like. There's only a few search engines. Bing. Google. Yandex. Yep.
I haven't found aggregating them with search to be even remotely useful because more garbage is still garbage
There is actually a lot more search engines that you might think, plus there are privacy frontends for them you can aggregate.
Edit: Also the main poin't of searxng is to use it as a proxy for them which hepps if you use an instance with multiple users, or host an instance for you and your friends for example.
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All the people complaining must not be using verbatim search (in search tools, toggle from "all results.")
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Yep, I switched to kagi a while back and couldn’t be happier with the results. If you don’t want to be the product, maybe consider paying for search?
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Tor Browser is planning to remove Google from the search engine options a user can choose: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41835
There some say brave onion + no JS is good: https://search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion/
Mullvad team seems to be considering 4 possible options:
- Startpage: https://www.startpage.com/
- Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
- Brave Search: https://search.brave.com/
- Metager: https://metager.org/
PS: Not disgussing ddg / ddg onion too much, basically because ddg is the long-time default search engine of TB. Most TB users assume ddg is a decent, standard, generic option, esp. its non-JS version.
I'm in a worse situation. I still go to Yahoo every day out of habit going back to the nineties. I instantly regret it every time I do it.
You know what? I tried it, and even though it's dated, it gave me better results that google.
Hard to believe it's still around. But then so is AOL.com.
hehe, just for fun I tried prodigy.com (wasn't there) but holy shit compuserve.com was!
I've used Startpage for a year or more on my main computer and it works okay.
But if anyone has any tips for a search engine that actually supports queries with boolean logic and such, I'd be all for it. Lately they all seem to just not do that anymore.
I vastly prefer a search engine in the EU, that respects the privacy laws here.
I use Google search when I want to buy something, for some reason, it gets good résultats when I want to buy from my country. but if you want reliable results for a product review, you have to look elsewhere.
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