• DevDave@piefed.social
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    16 hours ago

    I have switched to DuckDuckgo and while their index is crap, it’s at least has more crap than what Google has.

    DuckDuckgo I believe leases the Bing engine so I am still trying others.

    also now I am using the direct search engines for specific sites… eg ‘@wiki <my search query>’ to use Wikipedias onwn search.

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      14 hours ago

      Startpage uses Google’s index, or used to. At very least, it seems to have more and different results than DuckDuckGo.

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        8 hours ago

        Oh interesting, Startpage looks like it has access to Google’s image search dataset and possibly their crazy ass vector basesd mobius strip index system