• @[email protected]
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    People still use Google? I thought many of us, and specially in tech using platforms like this, left it behind years ago. But maybe not as many as I think.

          • TenorTheHusky
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            1 year ago

            DuckDuckGo can search using almost any search engine anonymously. Want to search Bing? !b query. Google? !g query. Scratch this, I remembered wrong what those do.
            I do believe there’s a setting to aggregate the top results from several different engines as the default search algorithm.

              • TenorTheHusky
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                21 year ago

                Ah, you’re right, my bad. I could have sworn I remembered a search syntax on ddg for searching different sites with an anonymous query - apparently ! operators are not it

            • Senex
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              41 year ago

              DuckDuckGo has a problem with booleans. I had to give up the Duck because of this. I’m using Mojeek, MetaGer and SearXNG these days.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Don’t forget about bangs for searching alternate sites: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs !w = wikipedia, !e = ebay, !zillow = guess, !r = reddit, etc

          Just put your bang in front of the rest of the search you want to do on that site: !g why doesn’t Google use bangs? !ddg Why does Duck Duck Go use bangs?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Kagi is not only decent but much better. It’s fantastic. I switched when it was new and never looked back.

        Try a few searches with both Kagi and Google and you should see quite different results.

        • Senex
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          101 year ago

          Yeah, I’m not gonna pay to search the internet. No way.

          • GizmoLion
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            41 year ago

            Lol that’s a wild concept. $5 for 300 searches… so now when I go down a rabbit hole I have to count my searches.

            Also, that gives them perverse incentives. If they make searching just a little frustrating they can get more searches out of you = more money. That’s not right.