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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)
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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] sculd@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Qwant

Try it. It has pretty good results even outside the US and is much more private.

[–] lunicoDee@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Qwant is just a bing frontend with a bit better privacy, bit they still share some of tour informations:

Why are you transferring data to Microsoft, and what data is it?

Microsoft provides some of the search results you see on our pages, and provides ads to the keywords in your search inquiry. This means that we need to send Microsoft some information related to your search that allows our partner to return results and ads relevant to that search, and to prevent fraudulent clicks or other activities that are not permitted by our Terms of Use.

In order to detect fraud, Qwant uses a specialized service offered by Microsoft, which does not have access to the keywords of your search. Only your IP address and the browser (your “User Agent”) are communicated to this specialized service to calculate a fraud probability score. Keywords are sent separately to another service that does not know your IP address.

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Also, the results are Bing's so they are biased.

Overall, It's your choice, bit qwant may ne not the best for results and privacy

[–] sculd@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Its a tradeoff.

I understand Qwant to not perfect but its better than DDG in non-English results and I need it for work.

At least its better than Google.....