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).
Big fan of DuckDuckGo and Startpage. Brave Search is also a fine choice, as well.
I use duckduckgo with Google as a backup for when what I’m searching for is too specific. I’ve had to use Google less and less lately though
Been using Duck Duck Go too for a while. Not heard of Startpage before.
Used Duckduckgo for a while, got myself into a spiral of search engine exploration and at some point settled on Startpage for a while…but I just missed the maturity in functionality of Duckduckgo. It just always felt like I was making a usability/productivity sacrifice. So I returned and am still happy … for now :p
I’ve also been using Duck Duck go. I hadn’t heard about Startpage before.
Duckduckgo as default. If I need location/region specific stuff, I will sometimes use google.
Nothing compares to DuckDuckGo with bangs, which let you change over to any other search engine with two or three characters. I usually use !g (Google), !w (Wikipedia) and !aw (ArchWiki).
I had no idea they had this feature. Thank you, I don’t think I’ll use anything ever again unless I absolutely have to now.
Holy shit! I think you just changed my life!
Brave. It’s interesting getting completely different results than from any of the big players. And the results from Brave are often better.
I use the Brave browser on my phone. The searches are good, but I mainly like that I can watch YouTube without adds, and make the video windowed and even turn off the phone screen while it plays.
I used DuckDuckGo as my default and it works out for me most of the time. Though, were it tends to fall apart is with image searching. When I can’t find what I’m looking for I’ll go to Google and find it pretty quickly.
DDG
I use the following search engines listed by priority:
- Brave
- DuckDuckGo
- Google / Bing
Sometimes the first two just don’t have the right results.
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DuckDuckGo. I’ve become reliant on the bangs. Regular search not giving me what I want? Just add !g. Want to find a word? !wt. Look up an album? !rym. Just want to search something on YouTube quickly? !yt
Same engine, same reason.
DDG
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I tried it. The appeal to me was it was supposed to be like Google but maybe better but it’s just worse. :(
I wish I used DuckDuckGo more, but lately Google has been the default…
DuckDuckGo, if that doesn’t work then I go to Startpage.
Bing, actually. I think it has greatly improved. Mostly. Plus the new Bing and AI stuff has been great. Much better than google
I use Qwant and find it gives me better results than Google most of the time. It claims to be private and such, so I’m happy with it.
Thank you for reminding me about Qwant! I will set it as my default to try it out again. I remember that I did not find it too impressive a few years back. Felt like the exact same results as Bing, even though it supposedly has its own index.
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