I am the only one that use Linux and bing as a default search? (On firefox) I personally think bing have better results than google right now
Check out some alternatives:
searXNG - open source & self-hosted meta-search engine (aggregates results from many others, like google, bing, qwant, duckduckgo - configurable which ones.) list of public instances just pick one that’s close to you physically and has a good uptime.
duckduckgo - uses bing for most search results, but is way more private
brave search - uses their own index, has a privacy-respecting privacy policy and the results are pretty damn good
I already know Searxng but never tried extensively, I might give a serious try
I’ve used duckduckgo but I remember was really slow loading results 🤔
For brave search, I’ve never took it seriously, I should try also this if you say results are good. But how they found themselves?
If you’re using Bing anyways, consider switching to Ecosia, it’s a non-profit search engine, they pull their search results from Bing and plant trees across the globe with their profits.
It might not be for extremely privacy conscious people because they do send some of your data (obfuscated IP addresses, user agent string etc.) to Microsoft because they use Bing but it’s still orders of magnitude better than using Bing directly.
I also agree bing is nowadays often superior to Google, they’re also better than DDG imo.
While it’s a good thing that Google gets serious competition, I don’t know if Microsoft is the best company for that role. In both cases the incentives are not necessarily aligned with the customer.
If you choose to use bing, then great. Problem is being forced to, or constantly nagged. (I personally use ddg)
DDG still uses Bing on their backend. But you won’t get tracked for using it.
