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[–] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Google has users still? Less tech savvy people have been hijacked by Bing, more techavvy people have bailed years ago. Right?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The least tech-savvy people don't use Windows, but Android or iOS, where Bing isn't the default search engine. (Slightly more tech-savvy ones may also use Chrome on Windows.)

As a tech-savvy person I still use Google a lot because DDG just doesn't give equally good results much of the time. There are many web pages that are indexed by Google, but not DDG.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I highly recommend kagi if you can justify the cost. It is genuinely how Google used to be in terms of search quality.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the tip, currently I usually get what I want from DDG and Google (almost never use any others), but if I ever become dissatisfied I might try it.

[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Google has 89% of the web search marketshare according to statcounter