I live in a country which uses a language I don’t speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).
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DuckDuckGo always
Nothing compares to DuckDuckGo with bangs, which let you change over to any other search engine with two or three characters. I usually use !g (Google), !w (Wikipedia) and !aw (ArchWiki).
I had no idea they had this feature. Thank you, I don’t think I’ll use anything ever again unless I absolutely have to now.
I didn’t know DDG introduced that feature. That’s sick honestly. They even have bangs for my more obscure wikis.
Holy shit! I think you just changed my life!
DuckDuckGo 95% of the time, Google if I’m having trouble finding something.
DuckDuckGo is using bing as source for their search results the same way startpage.com is using Google as source.
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DuckDuckGo, if that doesn’t work then I go to Startpage.
I use Qwant and find it gives me better results than Google most of the time. It claims to be private and such, so I’m happy with it.
Thank you for reminding me about Qwant! I will set it as my default to try it out again. I remember that I did not find it too impressive a few years back. Felt like the exact same results as Bing, even though it supposedly has its own index.
DDG
DDG almost 100% of the time.
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+1 for Kagi.com, been using it for a long while, it rocks and is definitely worth paying for.
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Searxng (searx.be) / startpage
I use DDG and im pretty happy with it. I now pretty much only use google if i need to find working hours and location of a store on google maps, as DDG doesnt have that information as obviously available
I use Startpage, a privacy focused search engine which uses Google powerful search engine but without sending the actual data to them. The result are pretty good. You can change both the language and region in the settings. Bad part of Startpage is it is a for profit company (some advertising will be displayed using past search history only)
I use ublock origin and block the ads
I use DDG pretty exclusively. I’ve never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn’t think about it after that
I’m using Startpage.com (can set the location - I also have the problem that I use a VPN and keep getting not the language I want. IDK how to make it stick though), and Kagi paid for a bit now.
DDG all the way
Mine… One of the SearXNG instances published at https://searx.space.
