• Beryl@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now, and I never went back to Google. Maybe give it a try !

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      7 months ago

      My understanding is that duckduckgo is just Bing without tracking, I also have used it for a few years to decent success but figure it’s worth noting

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        7 months ago

        I’ve been using bing at work and it’s surprisingly good. It’s got tracking and ads and crap but it’s really more like Google was a few years ago than anything

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          7 months ago

          Frankly I tend to agree. I started using it for the rewards, now that they nerfed that program I still use it since the search is better than Google, copilot intrusion aside

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Do you have history enabled on your browser?

      Really curious what your last say 10 non-private searches were.

      Asking as I’m constantly going back to Alphabet Adware Search (!g). If I just wanted the homepages of Fortune 500 companies I could use DDG exclusively, but I look for:

      • forum posts
      • image & gif results
      • Lemmy results

      And much more I can’t think of right now. For all of the above, I end up banging out of DDG (by adding !g) for Google. At least until I get in the habit of using SearXNG.