• Gex@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    After switching to the fediverse, I should also replace Google.

    Not necessarily. One step to a better internet at a time. Sometimes people get overwhelmed by free software solutions because they try to do everything at once.

    But with what?

    I’ve tried a lot but replacing google search is not easy. You can of course use a meta search engine like searx which is great but then you hand your search traffic directly to some random instance owner. You could also use startpage which is basically a firewall for google search. duckduckgo does work and I use it sometimes but the search results are definitely worse than google’s. The bangs are a nice feature though.

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      1 year ago

      I think DuckDuckGo has gotten way better, and Google has gotten way worse. I tend to use DG for most search needs and then append !g to go to Google if the search doesn’t meet my needs.

    • 🅱🅴🅿🅿🅸@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I was using ddg for a while but got fed up with the kinda shit results… swapped over to brave search and it seems much better, but not 100% sure if it’s got the privacy behind it like ddg does… have you got any experience with brave search?