rosenjcbYou cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore
šāzŅWhy people use google in this day and age? š¤·āāļø
nineninenineHonest question from someone ignorant on this topic ā what do you recommend for a search engine other than Google?
I have been using duckduckgo.com for the last few years. I definitely find it preferable to google.
That said, when I first switched over I would occasionally have a hard time finding something and swap back to google to let their algorithm that was tailored to me help out.
Would you say that duckduckgoās search algorithm has gotten better, or that you have gotten better at using it?
Googleās algorithm works better at finding really weird things deep in the bowels of the web (obscure programming questions around GPU shaders in a specific framework or graphics pipeline) plus at local things if outside the US (because Google has the notion of Region when returning search results, so for example here in Portugal if I search in portuguese for a store to buy something I donāt get results from Brasil) whilst duckduckgo works better for everything else.
Personally I default to duckduckgo and only use Google when that one isnāt returning good enough results.
joel_feilabrave, it is a separate database then Google and they have a discussion sub search.
Qwant is a French based search that does not track you. also good results and based in the eu.
metagear is a meta seaech engine that pulls results from yahoo Bing and goggle.
Startpage, Qwant, Swisscow, SearX
If these donāt work for you, try duckduckgo but I donāt recommend it as its made and based in the US.
Any app thats developed and hoated in US is a serious threat. Use any app which are developed and hosted in the EU .
why did they even start
I stopped using google as my main search engine about 4 months ago. Duckduckgo.com is comparable in most ways, except things like maps are a bit less visually enjoyable to use.
It still returns better results for many queries than the alternatives. My ability to weigh usefulness against ideological concerns is pretty limited at times, so I'll use which search engine gives me the best results.
I hope you are asking that rhetorically.
But if the question is serious, is because very many people grew up with google and got take good at using it. Got dependent on the certain idiosyncrasies of how Google presents its results. Got entangled in multiple other google services that make results more relevant.
I have my entire career because I was (and am) better than a lot of people at googling things. I hate what Google has become and I do have DDG as my primary search tool on my phone now. But itās really difficult to complete jettison google search and I do still use it fairly regularly. Even though they seem insistent on making their results as trash as possible.
I donāt use anything thatās made or based on the US. Serious redflag!
Eh. I guess I understand some suspicion, but for better or worse a very large portion of the internet is US-centric. Itās pretty difficult to use any major internet content and avoid US based stuff entirely.
Also from what Iāve seen, while these companies may be US-based they 100% have their own profits prioritized over any national interests. Iād be surprised to learn of any kind of overt nationalism biased towards the US from Google, for instance.
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