I’ve been using Kagi as well to good success
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia are the two big ones that tend to come up in these kind of questions, although there’s a handful of smaller search platforms out there as well. Bing is even worse than Google at this point. If I recall correctly Ecosia uses a custom search algorithm but still relies mostly on Google’s index at this time, DuckDuckGo is entirely independent.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 days ago
crandlecan@mander.xyz 4 days ago
I fully switched to presearch.com
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 4 days ago
duckduckgo uses bing doesn’t it? the results seem mostly identical to me
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
If I recall correctly it queries the Bing API among other niche sources for indexing and acts as a proxy for ad purposes, so while there’s a lot of Bing results, it’s not one-to-one. Unless they changed things recently, it’s possible I missed a press release.
DrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I’m pretty sure yes, if you use ddg news there’ll be a lot of results from MSN, owned by Microsoft