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What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don't trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What's the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?

Edit: I meant to also express my frustration that most browsers do not let you select a "default search engine" that can be used in the address bar aside from 3-5 pre-chosen engines. Seems like 2023 we should be able to customize that to our own liking.

Edit 2: Thanks for the recommendation of Kagi. I'm going to roll with it for a while. I see they have an extension for Safari that allows them to hijack the address bar, which is just what I needed.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

[Edited by the commenter to remove incorrect information, see below.] I'm not sure if anything else has come up since then though, and I've continued using DDG, just not for any sort of news or information on current events. I mainly use a search engine for dev stuff anyways.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s actually the opposite. The downranked sites they considered Russian propaganda which made a lot free speech enthusiasts mad.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/duckduckgo-russian-disinformation-downranking.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think rather than either or, it just ranks things differently and doesn't give the best results.

I also remember during the height of COVID, antivax people were saying to use DDG because their random blogs and conspiracy YouTube videos were closer to the top compared to google.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Do you have a source for that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Apart from that, the results are often pretty terrible unless you use the exact terms from whatever page you're trying to find. I've also seen a lot of people stating that search results keep changing every time they refresh the page as well.