I found duckduckgo results were so bad that it made searching for stuff way worse. I always ended up going back to Google (I know I can use the !'s or whatever) or bing.
The best search engine that Ive used that gave me that “Google from 1999” vibe is kagi.
It’s paid search which immediately ruffles people’s feathers because we’ve gotten so used to trading our data and privacy for free stuff on the web. But I think it’s reasonably priced and it gives me incredible search results. I have never had to go back to Google to find something.
Google is an ad company. Kagi is a search company.
I don’t understand this, i’ve had perfectly fine search results with all search engines i’ve used… I’m sorry but i have to wonder if people are just bad at using search engines.
I had that same thought myself. I was getting such bad results on ddg I assumed I was doing something wrong. I thought, maybe two decades of using Google trained me to search Google vs search the web.
I gave it so many chances and even tried to change my search terms to adapt to ddg and possibly get better results. Nothing seemed to work.
When I tried kagi, I immediately was getting usable results. That said, i also find myself perusing the results and trying stuff further down the results than I ever would with Google.
I really like DuckDuckGo for searches
I found duckduckgo results were so bad that it made searching for stuff way worse. I always ended up going back to Google (I know I can use the !'s or whatever) or bing.
The best search engine that Ive used that gave me that “Google from 1999” vibe is kagi.
It’s paid search which immediately ruffles people’s feathers because we’ve gotten so used to trading our data and privacy for free stuff on the web. But I think it’s reasonably priced and it gives me incredible search results. I have never had to go back to Google to find something.
Google is an ad company. Kagi is a search company.
I don’t understand this, i’ve had perfectly fine search results with all search engines i’ve used… I’m sorry but i have to wonder if people are just bad at using search engines.
I had that same thought myself. I was getting such bad results on ddg I assumed I was doing something wrong. I thought, maybe two decades of using Google trained me to search Google vs search the web.
I gave it so many chances and even tried to change my search terms to adapt to ddg and possibly get better results. Nothing seemed to work.
When I tried kagi, I immediately was getting usable results. That said, i also find myself perusing the results and trying stuff further down the results than I ever would with Google.
I’d say about 50% of ddg searches end up with me adding !g.
Use StartPage. It’s anonymized like ddg but it uses google on the backend
Their pricing is rather premium. They ought to make it a lot cheaper if they want wide adoption since the competition is “free”.