Not so much anymore. Bing and google are pretty shit nowadays (for most any searches). I’ve been getting more accurate search results with duckduckgo, but I’m still looking for a search engine with better results.
We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.
That’s what Duckduckgo is saying.
I use it for pic searches. I can easily go to the link of the pic. On the other hand, Google takes me to the site containing the pic.
Another concern of mine re Google is this –
Say I’m searching re a car. The search results are riddled with carmechanic.com, carexpert.com, moderncar.com, carstoday.com and others. Idk if those are legit. There’s a lot of misinformation on the Net so I’ve been careful.
Kagi is pretty good, but expensive. I like that listicles are put in their own small section so you can ignore them. You can boost, pin, demote, or block results from certain domains. You can create and quickly switch between domain list presets to search only specific sets of sites. The only thing I don’t like is the exerpts below results don’t bold what you’re looking for like Google does.
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Not so much anymore. Bing and google are pretty shit nowadays (for most any searches). I’ve been getting more accurate search results with duckduckgo, but I’m still looking for a search engine with better results.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 months ago
duckduckgo just uses bing on the backend doesnt it?
drawerair@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s what Duckduckgo is saying.
I use it for pic searches. I can easily go to the link of the pic. On the other hand, Google takes me to the site containing the pic.
Another concern of mine re Google is this –
Say I’m searching re a car. The search results are riddled with carmechanic.com, carexpert.com, moderncar.com, carstoday.com and others. Idk if those are legit. There’s a lot of misinformation on the Net so I’ve been careful.
joe_cool@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It does. I use yandex in my Firefox porn container now.
31337@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Kagi is pretty good, but expensive. I like that listicles are put in their own small section so you can ignore them. You can boost, pin, demote, or block results from certain domains. You can create and quickly switch between domain list presets to search only specific sets of sites. The only thing I don’t like is the exerpts below results don’t bold what you’re looking for like Google does.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I have noticed that recently…meaning a few minutes before I typed this.
Google has sucked for a long time now and now bing isn’t even good for finding porn anymore.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
mullvad leta and brave search are pretty good about being private
Mullvad leta is only accessible by using the mullvad browser extension with mullvad VPN on the same device.