I ask because I’ve been doing a lot of research the last few weeks and Google search has really let me down. I’ve been finding better results on DuckDuckGo and Bing. Is this a recent thing with Google or am I out of the loop? Any other search recommendations?

Edit: In no particular order, some recommended alternatives to Google
SearXNG
Whoogle
Ecosia
Brave
Dogpile
DuckDuckGo
Kagi
Swiss Cows
Qwant
Bing

  • tivasyk@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    «DDG results are much more useful than Google results» – not if one is searching in anything but english; not sure for english either (had very poor results myself whenever i tried it) but at least can’t disprove it.

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      1 year ago

      DDG is really good for my English searches. I was shocked yo learn that it relies on Bing because Bing searches are always trash for me.

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      1 year ago

      The English results are pretty good from what I’ve seen. Hit and miss in some areas though, like if you want to search in quotes.

      Simple searches in other languages seem to work OK. It might depend on the language though. Google does better overall.