Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

• person1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m using Qwant, used Ecosia before. Really OK for most stuff. I still revert to googling occasionally - mainly for local businesses on maps and sometimes shopping results. But I agree, don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, well said.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google maps is still the best for looking up local businesses and reviews. I wish people would go back to using a modern version of yellow pages.

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  • Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In Ecosia’s settings you can set it to primarily use Google results instead of Bing. Makes it a lot more enjoyable to use.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve never heard of Ecosia, but I don’t understand your logic on this.

  Problem: Google bad!

  Solution: Don’t use google, use Ecosia instead.

  Error: Ecosia also uses google.

  How is this a good move? If anything it’s just a lateral move with the same problem.

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  • 3laws@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eventually they’ll stop using G and MAYBE they have better impact in the climate. Why be a fucking prick about it?

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  • Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Late reply but: Ecosia let’s you choose between Google or Bing, but I guess that isn’t really your point. The main thing is it anonymises your searches, so you do get some additional privacy. Additionally, the hope is that one day they build their own index. They just recently announced that they’re gonna start one with Quant.

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re right but it’s still important to point out in this case since an American index would be subject to any American censorship law. It’s better to use Ecosia than Google for sure but we still gotta be aware of the type of bias we’re working with.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Definitely true. I’ll have to try it out. Is Ecosia better than DuckDuckGo or Kagi?

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  • Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Late to reply but: from what I heard, Kagi is really good at search (at least when it comes to filters and the such, not sure about base results), but it’s paid so that’s a disadvantage (and also a plus since you don’t get ads nor is your data being sold off), and it’s US based. DuckDuckGo also uses Bing but I guess they have more sources than just them. In my experience it’s about the same, maybe a bit better on DDG, both have shebangs (! for DDG, # for Ecosia) which I find extremely useful.

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