• Risk@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    I primarily use DuckDuckGo now, but very occasionally I use google when I feel like DuckDuckGo hasn’t come up with very good results.

    (I also use Google when I need a word definition - I like the layout and ability to see synonyms quickly.)

    Bing I don’t use because I just can’t stand the results page layout.

    Any other recommendations?

    • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      You can use Startpage to get Google search results. It’s a meta search engine for Google, but it doesn’t expose any of your data. You can use it with DuckDuckGo’s Bangs feature. That way, DuckDuckGo can be your default search engine and you can make all of your normal search queries with DDG, but if you want to search on Google through Startpage, you just type !sp followed by your search query into DuckDuckGo and it will forward your search to Startpage. This also works with many many other sites, type !bangs into DDG to get the full list of supported websites.

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      11 months ago

      SearXNG is my go to. It’s a search aggregator so you have to configure it to select your preferred search engines, but once everything is up and running, I’ve found it’s results to be even higher quality than Google’s

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      (I also use Google when I need a word definition - I like the layout and ability to see synonyms quickly.)

      yeah that’s one thing I really miss from when I had google as default search engine, typing word/phrase + define and actually getting a useful result. DDGs version is barely even helpful at all

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      11 months ago

      If you’re already using duckduckgo, you can just add !g in front of your search term if you aren’t happy with the results.
      It sends your search to google but without connecting your search with your ip.
      And if you use an ad blocker, google doesn’t even get anything out of it, other than server costs.