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Getting unhappy about DuckDuckGo (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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For several years I've been using DuckDuckGo instead of Google Search, and I've been overall quite happy with the results. Only rarely had I to resort to Google search (!g).

During the last month or two, however, I've found myself using the !g switch and Google search more than half of the time. DuckDuckGo shows no or few results where Google shows more (and useful) ones.

Still I don't want to give in. So:

Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo?
Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?

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[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I haven't really experienced a worsening of DDG, and this is a bit off topic, perhaps, but—

I have yet to find a better alternative to Google's video search. Google Books also remains valuable in many ways, since it will give you different "search inside the book"-type search results than the Internet Archive will (and they also have some books that IA does not).

What's annoying to me is that StartPage, which is supposed to have Google search results, and by and large does, does not give the same video results as Google (go ahead, try it). It would also be nice to have an Invidious or FreeTube type front end for Google Books, and I believe there used to be something like that, but not any longer.

Some Google products still have definite value, it's just important that they derive no benefit from us using them.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I remember reading that there was something "fishy" with Startpage, which is why I abandoned it quickly. But don't remember where.

Luckily I don't often search for videos, but I agree that it seems difficult to find good search alternatives there.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

For what it's worth, Mullvad recently opened up Leta to people without Mullvad VPN accounts. It's a google/brave search proxy so pretty much what Startpage claims to do, but I trust Mullvad to actually respect my privacy more than I do Startpage.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

It would be nice if Leta had tabs for images, videos, etc.

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