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What search engine y'all are using? (lemmy.world)
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I am kinda fed up off trying all these privacy focused search engines which provide lesser quality service. Here's what I've tried so far:

  1. Duckduckgo: bad results when you search something that piracy related
  2. Searx: I'm not geeky enough to host mine own searx so I just jump from one instance to another and the uptimes have been bad.
  3. Startpage: Idk why it's down most of the time
  4. Ecosia: Not very private, but I just tried it for the sake of it. It's bad when it comes to the results.

Honestly I feel Brave search is the best when it comes to results. But the sketchy practices kept me away from it. Kagi is paid so I haven't tried it.

What have you been using?

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[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I absolutely could launch the calculator app by keyboard shortcut when I'm on a desktop. And I kept a calculator widget across an entire full screen in my Android phone's home menu, for many years.

These days, I really value the ability to just open a new tab, belt out my instructions, hit enter, and see the result though - - it is mostly things like calculating the total cost of buying something across a year, or calculating currency conversions, or estimating battery capacities and consumption rates.

In this regard, without wanting to buy into an entire AI ecosystem, I do require my search engines to do at least one function beyond mere searches: Pre-algebra.