Comment on Which privacy-focused search engine are you using?
SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 1 year ago
Default search in Firefox: SearXNG (solves 60-80%)
if not the solution, I then search for “dd [term]” which goes to duckduckgo. Solves mostly the rest.
If not, and I am really desperate, I try: “dd !g [term]” so it goes to ddg, redirects to google and then I am reminded how bad a first page result can be. Only ads, sponsored entries and only big company names. Good luck finding anything from a forum or a small blog on google today. All the search words are bundled up in company results that has nothing to do with the topic.
nix@merv.news 1 year ago
You don’t use an adblocker?
SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 1 year ago
Sure. But how is that changing the quality of google results? Are you trolling?
nix@merv.news 1 year ago
I meant because you mentioned there’s nothing but ads which would be gone with an adblocker. Did you mean the actual results are essentially ads or literally the ads and Sponsored post at the top?
SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 1 year ago
Sponsored results. I do not see ads, but I can see from the thing that I was searching for, and the difference between the that abd the first 4 results, that this can not be a real search result but a highly customized and profiled result. The results are just straight garbage.
darreninthenet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have a look at uBlacklist it removes a lot of the SEO rubbish for me