I’ve been using SearXNG over Duckduckgo lately. It’s a free (as in freedom) aggregator that searches all the engines. It’s not perfect but you know 100% you are not being tracked.
The results are closer to a true old school search of the web. Sometimes it works better, sometimes not as well. It’s best to pick a local instance that has quicker speeds since the main site can be a bit slower than local ones.
This distributed web stuff is really taking off. I like it!
Xabis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t get why everyone espouses ddg but shits on bing when bing is the underlying source.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Because you’re in a bubble of “big corporations bad”. Not uncommon on the fediverse for obvious reasons.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a fairly reliable truth.
Xabis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t really subscribe to that mentality personally. Some are and some are not. Just like people.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 10 months ago
That explains why my DDG searches have been less than helpful… it’s just as unhelpful as Bing. I usually find myself trying other search engines, but run back to Google when I can’t find anything relevant to the problem I’m trying to solve (most of my googling is tech help stuff).
Xabis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly.
As much as I’ve seen threads here on lemmy complaining about how terrible Google search is, Bing isn’t any better.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 10 months ago
DDG is hit and miss for me, its my main SE but if i dont get results i want i switch to google. I have actually searched a website with almost the exact URL (when i wasnt sure about the end of the address) and it gave me zero results for that site, so it definately has its shortcomings.
And bing is fantastic, for video search… Porn.