I find duckduckgo works pretty well. Use to I’d have to swap between it and Google depending on what I was looking for, but now I haven’t had to swap in so long, that when I am forced to use Google at work, I actually get irritated with it because all the answers are buried under a mountain of ads.
Between Duck Duck Go and Brave’s search, I never really need Google. At work I was able to switch to those also. I’m still stuck using Chrome or Edge at work (they won’t let us use Firefox for whatever reason, which is weird for what should be a high security industry).
Firefox makes it difficult for IT to manage it through Active Directory and Group rules. Where I work, if it weren’t for the fact that we produce a web app as our primary product, we’d be locked down to only Edge.
I use duckduckgo by default but still need to switch back to Google to search for local stuff. Even if I share my location and search in my native language, duckduckgo’s results are still US-centered.
My favorite bangs on DuckDuckGo:
- !g Google
- !gi Google Images
- !gm Google Maps
- !yt YouTube
- !wiki Wikipedia
I’m sure there’s a lot of others. Basically, you shove that at the end of your query and you make a query to the other thing instead. I found it made my transition to DDG easier.
Example: test!g Googles test.
