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What search engine do you use? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by SillyLilJester@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org
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I live in a country which uses a language I don't speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).

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[–] Nolando@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

DuckDuckGo 95% of the time, Google if I’m having trouble finding something.

[–] amortized_cost@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo 99% of the time, ~~Google~~ Startpage if I'm having trouble finding something.

*Note: Startpage uses Google as their source of search result.

[–] styx@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the way.

[–] mynameisnotdoug@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Same. The heavy bias towards Microsoft-centric top hits (thanks, Bing) usually mean when I'm searching for a non-Windows tech answer I go right to !g, but otherwise it's my default.

[–] Faendol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I switched to DuckDuckGo a while ago and haven't regretted it at all. I honestly barely notice the difference. Realistically I should switch to firefox next but I'm pretty ingrainded in google chrome admittedly.

[–] Nolando@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I made the jump a ways back, and it’s only on rare occasions that I find I need to open Brave or Chrome (whichever is installed on my machine at the time) for website compatibility.

[–] Vorticity@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've been trying to switch to duckduckgo but I really struggle with the results. I appreciate the privacy angle but I just can't seem to find what I want about 80% of the time. It's like it just ignores parts of my query...

[–] jukey@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DuckDuckGo is using bing as source for their search results the same way startpage.com is using Google as source.