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What search engine do you use? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] tenet@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A combination of DDG and Google. DDG's results too often look like a list of sponsors so when that happens I fuck right back off to Google.

Get an ad blocker, get Privacy Badger, use a VPN, experience the internet the way it was before corporate shitbags got hold of it. Mostly.

[–] Bloonface@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I've always been underwhelmed with DuckDuckGo as a search engine, and for context on that remark I use Bing as my main search engine.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

startpage is google with what appears to be less tracking. only issue it that they block tor browser. DDG does not.

[–] phi1997@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo even has an onion URL