Ecosia and DuckDuckGo
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Today I tried Googling something about following kbin magazines on lemmy and got 0 relevant results on the first page. Then I entered the same search on DuckDuckGo and the first few results were all relevant to my search. Finally I decided to make the permanent switch to DuckDuckGo. Google has been undergoing enshitification for a long time now. Ever since I started needing to include Reddit at the end of all my searches. Since I no longer want to include Reddit in my searches, I need to find a better search engine in general and hopefully DDG can be that.
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I decided to try to commit to Brave since it's the sole one to use open maps while DDG uses Apple.
Brave search but am looking for something else now that image search has been removed.
DDG all the way
Been very happy with DuckDuckGo for a while now.
I use DDG on desktop and Google on mobile. Unfortunately Google still has some conveniences that I can't give up just yet.
Ddg, brave and startpage
I used to use startpage, but I’ve recently switched to using random SearXNG instances with libredirect. It’s pretty good results wise and means I’m not dependant on just one entity providing my results.
I use Ecosia. Supposedly I've done enough searches for 241 trees to be planted, and I've yet to see anything that suggests they dont follow through with the promise to fund the planting of trees (although I've not actively looked). I think it's backed by bing so the results are a bit iffy sometimes, but I use the equivalent of ddg bangs to search Google if I need
startpage
Brave Search on all my personal devices, even though I'm getting worse results than up to a few months ago, so as much as it pains to admit it I sometimes use Google as a fallback (and the last time I actually used Google as my main search engine was back in 2012!). I probably should use metasearch engines more, though, but have been procrastinating learning how to effectively use them for a while now.
Aside from that, I have about a dozen sites saved with search keywords on Firefox (four of them are Wikipedia in different languages, though) that I use all the time.
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DuckDuckGo is great, I also switched to Brave Search a couple months ago. The results aren't as good, but I like how it's independently indexed.