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What search engine do you use? (and why?) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll go first. I've used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I'm currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg's but at least I'm planting trees, so there's that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

ddg.gg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope this mullvad project will work out

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use Bing just because it was immediately available when I decided I didn't want to use Google anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm using DuckDuckGo but I'm going to switch back to Brave Search when images will be ready

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

https://search.brave.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ecosia on desktop, DuckDuckGo on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I used DuckDuckGo for years but I recently decided to make my own minimalist frontend to Bing API + Brave API and I added bangs of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Startpage most of the time but its so slow in showing you the result. When im using the web for studying i just use google without an account because its just WAY faster

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Google most of the time, Yandex if I need to find pictures. Their image search is more like Google's before they nerfed it. I've used Qwant off and on in the past and rather liked it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I find Ecosia's results to be the better than other privacy-focused search engines, sometimes even better than Google. It struggles with searches in Turkish tho.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

For the moment I am using brave search not on brave browser but as a firefox add-on, a fine tuned searx.be and perplexity.ai, which isnt a search engine but a connected chatgpt ai with links in the answers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Ever since Bing introduced their AI stuff I've been trialing it + Edge on my main computer. It's not so bad but sometimes I do need to use Google to actually find what I'm looking for. Currently using Google on everything else though. The AI stuff is actually pretty good but I feel like if Google makes their implementation more widespread most people are just going to use that vs Bing.

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