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Which search engine do you use for what? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 15 hours ago by FreddiesLantern@leminal.space to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Someone (average smartphone user) complained to me the other day that there isn't a clear solution to navigating the web because it's either ai slop or the results are poor.

And I kinda agree, nowadays you do have to put in some more effort to get what you're looking for.

And so I told them I'd compile a list of which search engines are best for what purpose.

So far I have:

Startpage: works, but does a poor job of finding product codes and whatnot.

Duckduckgo: gives more general results afaik

Ecosia: works great but relies on bing

I have tried things like qwant ect but haven't really settled on those.

Any other suggestions?

I'd tell em to use udm14 but it's still google so I'd rather keep that as a plan B.

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[–] JWTB@lemmy.today 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Ecosia

Works very well for everyday stuff, been using it for almost 2 years now, though it does take a bit to get used to it because it gives you slightly different results for the same search queries

It's not worse, it just interprets your queries slightly differently

The only time it consistently fails and I switch to google is when I need to look up something via popular references, typically text on memes, for which Ecosia instead tends to return serious/factual results instead of the funny I was looking for

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

Oh, I actually like that Ecosia gives serious/factual results, less meme or brainrot stuff.

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

I wish Ecosia started rolling out EUSP in more countries, currently it's only available in France.