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[–] msage@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Google sucks.

I've been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo is basically just Bing with a bit more privacy and Bing search results suck too.

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Also DDG have their own crawler, so they can deliver more results than Bing.

[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dunno, ddg delivers what I need.

What do you use search engines for?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it does was you need it to do you should definitely use it, privacy vise it's obviously way better than google. Haven't tried in in about 2 years, maybe the search results got better but the last time I tried it often presented me weird sites that technically contained the words I searched for but were completely irrelevant - entered the same question onto Google and immediately got me a stack overflow question that was practically the same question I had but phrased a bit differently. But as I said, maybe it's no longer so bad as when I tried it.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

For a long time I used DuckDuckGo for everything except specific error messages, because Google was better at those, but Google got more shitty and so did stack overflow, so I don't bother much with Google anymore.

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've tried everything and I really really really can't use Google. It just never gets me what I want. DDG works ok, and is usually my default because it's fast and simple.

Recently (1 or 2 years) I've found Brave search to be fantastic though. You may want to disable the AI search summary (it's better than Google's or DDG's ai stuff, but still ultimately ai). Now, I find myself reaching for brave search when I'm doing more serious searching. I have both DDG and Brave saved as search short cuts in librewolf. Highly recommend.

[–] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 day ago

Here we go with this normie shit again.

Use Startpage.