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 .
I like Mojeek. It even has an option to search without using locational data, which is something that’s important to me.
I’m pretty sure I was able to just go to mojeek.com, right click the address bar, and add it to Firefox. I didn’t need an add-on or anything like that.
Yeah its in the options of search engine provided by firefox . Can someone back this guy up or disagree with him ?
Not that this will convince you, but worth noting that Mojeek also has a Lemmy presence: @Mojeek@lemmy.ml
It is kinda convincing me
howdy 👋
Uh if i may ask do you guys guarantee privacy and security without any hidden catches .
EDIT: I have decided to stick eith you guys for the time being.
no hidden catches no
Ok thanks
All I want is a search engine that 1. doesn’t make moral judgements on the results relevant to a search, 2. filters out ai and ad farm results by default, and 3. can be toggled to effectively search web 1.0-style forums.
Search results were amazing back in the day. There were like a couple 100 good websites and it was all just text indexes.
The web is simply too big not to do ranked searches.
The big problem is how they are ranked though.
Interesting.
I hope for a new paradigm in web searching. I wouldn’t even mind if a search took 5-10 minutes, if it meant a handful of quality results. I easily waste that much time or more sifting through garbage ai and ad-driven results as it stands.
I like DogPile. It lets you get results from Yahoo! directory, Lycos, Excite, WebCrawler, Infoseek, AltaVista, WhatUSeek, and HotBot.
AskJeeves works pretty well too.
Damn. Dogpile still exists? I used to use that before Google took over.
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.
Yeah it’s definitely taken a sharp nosedive over the past 9 months.
I miss dogpile siiiigh
