I love the idea of duckduckgo but man the results suck
It’s extra funny because DDG is (mostly) Bing.
Its come along way since being mostly bing
Does it index its own data? Bing apparently sucks at that part, especially becoming filled with AI as farm results and slop videos.
Oh, so it’s great at porn then
Ddg results are so good. I dont get the hate on them. I try to go back to Google and the results are unusable.
DDg for me is annoying because it isn’t localised when I search something.
That’s my own fault though for not sharing my location.
I use it for everything
Ddg has a dropdown for your country
I specifically add my location to the search when im looking for local stuff otherwise I want international results. So on google I’d search bottle store but on ddg I search bottle store auckland [suburb] because it doesnt know where i am. Or I use the !maps bang to search on google maps.
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I haven’t had much problems with it? Can’t really remember the last time I felt the need to try a different backup search engine. And, usually, if I did, I wouldn’t find what I was looking for there, either.
It’s Google ten years ago, which was already shit. They need to go further back on the timeline.
Starpage, Qwant, and Brave search are all out there, just waiting for you.
Sadly, this is my experience too
And they show ads too.
I caved and switched when Google started giving me a full large chat window (not even just a small AI overview) by default when I ran a search.
If you dont want any ai switch over to noai.duckduckgo.com took me to long to see that it exsists.
I meant even I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo. DDG asks you about whether and how often you want AI answers
Yeah I didn’t like DDG either. Kagi is worth the price to have a better google-free experience,
Just try ducai
Brave search over ddg
Brave owns an ad company. I trust them as much as I trust Google.
Sure but duck duck go is bing with a proxy and has been known in the past to make acceptions for microsoft
Brave search is a fully independed search engine
At the if the day both services are closed source software from for profit companies
Not the old logo… </3
I got a stroke from this. Thanks.
self host use VPN etc
I found Degoog to be easier to deploy for my non-technical skills. A docker container and I was done.
So is searxng, lmao
Can very well be but wasn’t my experience. I also prefer the visual layout of degoog.
Librewolf + Kagi. I’ve looked at SearXNG but the Kagi search results ‘just work’ and let’s me tweak it how I want, so I haven’t felt motivated to bother with the deployment.
Ecosia.org is a good search engine, right now they still use google/bing for most of their queries but are developing their own search engine. Plus they are very ethical, green energy, profits go to projects helping nature, option to turn off AI results/summaries, the list goes on…
This is accurately accurate.
The most accurate kind of accuracy.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Qwant it is.
Last time i checked it was powered by bing also ?
No. Qwant always used its own index but it used Bing in addition as their own index wasn’t finished. However, since 2025 it only uses Staan, the index developed in cooperation with Ecosia.
source?
“Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and 33% of German queries by the end of the year”
so not all queries yet unfortunately
That’s because you’re not using it.
i am tho
Better have Kagi and Searx in there
Low and mid have the browser above the search engine, high breaks consistency with the engine over the browser 😔
Oh bless your heart