cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/70198876
I love the idea of duckduckgo but man the results suck
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It's extra funny because DDG is (mostly) Bing.
Its come along way since being mostly bing
Does it index its own data? Bing apparently sucks at that part, especially becoming filled with AI as farm results and slop videos.
Oh, so it's great at porn then
Ddg results are so good. I dont get the hate on them. I try to go back to Google and the results are unusable.
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
Ddg has a dropdown for your country
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.
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.
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).
It's Google ten years ago, which was already shit. They need to go further back on the timeline.
Sadly, this is my experience too
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.
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.
If you dont want any ai switch over to noai.duckduckgo.com took me to long to see that it exsists.
I meant even I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo. DDG asks you about whether and how often you want AI answers
Starpage, Qwant, and Brave search are all out there, just waiting for you.
Yeah I didn’t like DDG either. Kagi is worth the price to have a better google-free experience,
And they show ads too.
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self host use VPN etc
I found Degoog to be easier to deploy for my non-technical skills. A docker container and I was done.
Librewolf + 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.
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.
Tech bros maybe? Or people that work at Alphabet/Google?
DDG is a Bing frontend though.
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
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.
Alr
Bing is still the best search engine for porn
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.
Can a scientist plz confirm?
Hello. I beat my meat like an unruly son. Bing is still the king of porn results.
This was a great comment + username combo to wake me up. lmao
and DDG by proxy
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..
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
This is accurately accurate.
The most accurate kind of accuracy.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Qwant it is.
Better have Kagi and Searx in there
Low and mid have the browser above the search engine, high breaks consistency with the engine over the browser 😔
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