I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don’t have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .And also i deleted the post from ask lemmy because i thought it wasn’t the appropriate sub (i know should’ve thought of that before posting )
Maybe kagi? I use it and like it
There is some controversy recently due to partnering with Brave for search results, and the response to comments. Brave tends to be controversial any time it comes up anyway, outside of Eich’s political views.
company x founder personal political views was not a factor in this evaluation for this or any any provider we added (for betteor or worse) and merit of technology was the main factor. Politics finding its way into tech is one of the reasons we do not have innovation any more
People can go whatever direction they want with that.
he was also removing criticism form queer folks on their Discord while leaving up valuable discussion points like “stop shoving LGBTQ down our throats”.
DDG is still the best.
Stop asking this same question repeatedly.
I have the idea DDG (or Bing which powers it) is getting worse, if you search for items, you first get a load of webstores selling that item and a Wikipedia article might show up on page 2 at best.
They really need to prioritize Wikipedia in general, but, also, maybe I just need to make Wikipedia my homepage instead.
How many times are you gonna make this post?
Dude went ahead and deleted the last one I commented on, at this point I think hes tryina use the “Delete post” button as the search button
Its not just posts, this is at least the second time I’ve blocked an account with that name for making these low effort spammy posts.
And this one is only 8 days old, so I think they’re making accounts on different instances with the same name.
No i can assure you its my only account and yes its a new one . In fact this is the only account i have on any kind of social media to this day .
EDIT: why are you guys down voating me i am telling the truth or do you guys know things about me that i don’t or something ?Just look at my profile would someone with an alt do this much activity ? And also i deleted the post from ask lemmy because i thought it wasn’t the appropriate sub (i know should’ve thought of that before posting )
For a while I was self hosting whoogle but it’s been kind of problematic and gets rate limited very quickly. I have been looking at switching to searxng. For both of these you can find some hosted for the public but their security may not be as robust as a company like duck duck go would be. It’s a shame too that duckduckgo does actually collect data and send it to Microsoft as part of their agreement in order to use bing as their backend.
Disclaimer - Spend your money how you want. Use what works for your needs and moral standing. This post is a data point for consideration, not an endorsement.
I use Kagi with the unlimited search paid version. Whether it’s my own needs, friends, family, etc, I always seem to be the one doing the searching for everyone I interact with. After years of Google feeding more and more sponsored links into the results I switched to DDG, and after about 6 months of finding their results lackluster I tried Kagi.
For me, it works. I don’t know that I’ll use it forever or anything but at the moment it does a better job of getting me reliable results within the first few sites and I can move on with my day. I just need quick, accurate search results. So far Kagi has been that.
I did the free trial thing a couple times to see how it worked before paying and I’d suggest that to anyone thinking about switching. Give it a week or two on trial accounts and if it sucks then it probably isn’t for you.
