I can't decide whether to upvote this for the good recommendation it makes, or downvote it for the spammy YT channel "Hey Guys" and the really obvious well known nature of the whole post.
I heard some bad stuff about it a few months ago. Not sure what was going on. But DDG is pretty good. I'm using it for like a year and I'm always satisfied with the search results. They also made a privacy-focused AI chat frontend for those interested in it. It even includes some open-source models now.
The search being free is half the reason. Or maybe 1/3. The other reasons are that in plenty of cases it takes more than when I'm trying to understand something and I'm not sure what (like, today, I was trying to understand how the circuit of sewing machine pedal works) and I had to do several searches in order to figure that out since I wasn't even sure what is the right term.
The other one is that I'm not native English speaker, and often, I search for a term in one language, then the other. Or I need to do a search, just in order to find the right term.
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Thank you for the recommendation, DuckDuckGo marketing team. Instead, consider the following:
http://wiby.me/
https://searx.space/
lmao consider the duckduckgo team goes home and boots up searx for their use
duckduckgo?
with a name like that they have no chance of… becoming the most popular google alternative they already are 🤔
If it was an unknown project then the name could be a problem but at this point it's known and very easy to remember which is very good
I can't decide whether to upvote this for the good recommendation it makes, or downvote it for the spammy YT channel "Hey Guys" and the really obvious well known nature of the whole post.
I can confirm I did not intend to put any effort at all into making it sound non-spammy and bot-like
All good. IMO, almost discussion on Lemmy is good.
Honestly, Searx is better, and you can add ddg as an engine and still maintain your privacy from them.
https://searx.space/
Can I add it to my Android browser?
Yet it can, just to set it up manually
Will work
"Hey guys", DDG is like 15 years old already, partners with Bing, and seems to give IP location-based search results in "private" mode.
DuckDuckGo censors just like Google.
Their CEO is trash.
Federated is the only way.
Edit: To clarify, they are controlled opposition who serve the same master.
The best be right now is https://searx.space like https://searx.garudalinux.org or similar.
DuckDuckGo on Android tracks your search clicks via some weird injection
Source?
Open it on Android, run a search and check the url
Like this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jk&ko=-1&ia=web
I don't know what they mean by KO but it's obviously not tracking.
https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFediverse&rut=9b8b77c5fh5e87905d1308e1e8d701fbe184848838262729274960dbb2
Like this
I heard some bad stuff about it a few months ago. Not sure what was going on. But DDG is pretty good. I'm using it for like a year and I'm always satisfied with the search results. They also made a privacy-focused AI chat frontend for those interested in it. It even includes some open-source models now.
Still an attention based, ad funded business model, that turns it's users into the product.
I'm too lazy. And there's already Kagi
https://kagi.com/pricing
Monthly subscription
I fixed the previous link.
They're supported by user subscriptions. $10 for unlimited searches.
They estimate that a Google user searches 3/4 times a day.
Whut?
I probably do 3/4 searches an hour. Including while I'm sleeping.
For the typical "average" person, that's likely.
But the early adopting power user, looking for alternatives to Google, aren't those "average" people.
I'm 22 days into my month, and have 688 searches so far. But when unlimited was $15, I had no real trouble staying under 300.
People search so much mainly because they're used to free unlimited searches.
The search being free is half the reason. Or maybe 1/3. The other reasons are that in plenty of cases it takes more than when I'm trying to understand something and I'm not sure what (like, today, I was trying to understand how the circuit of sewing machine pedal works) and I had to do several searches in order to figure that out since I wasn't even sure what is the right term.
The other one is that I'm not native English speaker, and often, I search for a term in one language, then the other. Or I need to do a search, just in order to find the right term.
If you think the main limitation of hosting an independent non-meta (searxng) search engine is having a "better idea" then you're very lost.
Kagi has become my main search engine
Its better than Google shit
Bing, specifically microsoft edge, is only useful for downloading Google Chrome
https://search.brave.com/ is the one
DuckDuckGo is just Bing, Brave's is at least it's own search engine, that grows with every unique search.
Moving to Brave Search from Google is just very invasive spyware to less invasive spyware.
Why the downvotes? Brave is the best Google alternative that works for me.