I have been using duckduckgo.com for the last few years. I definitely find it preferable to google.
That said, when I first switched over I would occasionally have a hard time finding something and swap back to google to let their algorithm that was tailored to me help out.
Google’s algorithm works better at finding really weird things deep in the bowels of the web (for example: obscure programming questions around GPU shaders in a specific framework or graphics pipeline) and when searching for local things if outside the US (because Google has the notion of Region when returning search results, so for example here in Portugal if I search in portuguese for a store to buy something I don’t get results from Brasil) whilst duckduckgo works better for everything else.
Personally I default to duckduckgo and only use Google when duckduckgo isn’t returning good enough results, which is surprisingly unusual.
brave, it is a separate database then Google and they have a discussion sub search.
Qwant is a French based search that does not track you. also good results and based in the eu.
metagear is a meta seaech engine that pulls results from yahoo Bing and goggle.
Honest question from someone ignorant on this topic – what do you recommend for a search engine other than Google?
I have been using duckduckgo.com for the last few years. I definitely find it preferable to google.
That said, when I first switched over I would occasionally have a hard time finding something and swap back to google to let their algorithm that was tailored to me help out.
Would you say that duckduckgo’s search algorithm has gotten better, or that you have gotten better at using it?
Google’s algorithm works better at finding really weird things deep in the bowels of the web (for example: obscure programming questions around GPU shaders in a specific framework or graphics pipeline) and when searching for local things if outside the US (because Google has the notion of Region when returning search results, so for example here in Portugal if I search in portuguese for a store to buy something I don’t get results from Brasil) whilst duckduckgo works better for everything else.
Personally I default to duckduckgo and only use Google when duckduckgo isn’t returning good enough results, which is surprisingly unusual.
Startpage, Qwant, Swisscow, SearX
If these don’t work for you, try duckduckgo but I don’t recommend it as its made and based in the US.
Any app thats developed and hoated in US is a serious threat. Use any app which are developed and hosted in the EU .
brave, it is a separate database then Google and they have a discussion sub search. Qwant is a French based search that does not track you. also good results and based in the eu. metagear is a meta seaech engine that pulls results from yahoo Bing and goggle.