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rozodru@piefed.world 11 hours agopretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo “alliance thing” (can’t remember what it’s officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).
Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is…yeah.
Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they’re all the same except with those two you’re not going to get the AI slop or ads.
I hate the bing-yahoo search engine. On DDG, searching for news is absolute garbage.
Ask it to check latest news like “Donald Trump really make AI videos of Obama as Gorilla” and the News Search found 1 news article and 20 posts from a five years ago. But on Google News, it’s like 50 articles.
yeah I don’t bother with DDG anymore. used to love it but now it’s just hot garbage. Now I just use a 4get instance and for news just use the brutalist report and spike.news
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
my self hosted surprise of last year was a searxng container. i will never go back!!