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What search engine do you use? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by SemioticStandard@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.

I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I'll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you're careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It's useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.

This article on Ars (and if you're not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results

Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.

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[–] Silejonu@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

DuckDuckGo, but mostly because of the !bangs. I do 90% of my searches through StartPage (!s), and the rest directly on a few websites (Wikipedia, YouTube, Arch wiki...).

[–] Gimletson@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

What are !bangs and how do I use them?

[–] ayla@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I switched to DDG almost entirely because of the !w bang — Google massively downranking/hiding Wikipedia links made it a lot less useful to me.

[–] Ashtear@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, the bangs are a game changer! They even work well on niche sites like Jisho and Scryfall.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

Bangs to search Scryfall might actually be a selling point for me. I've been experimenting with Kagi, seems like it also supports that as well. This is amazing, thank you for this useful information. :D