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What search engine do you use? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo as a default with Google as fallback depending on what I'm looking for. For lemmy the default search of my instance works well enough so haven't tried external engines.

[–] disguy_ovahea 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pro tip: if you add !g to your search results in DuckDuckGo, it returns Google results

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's what I usually do

[–] SirSamuel 6 points 1 month ago

Same. I have had particularly poor results on image searches from duckduckgo. It's on par or superior to Google for general web searches, but man, Google image search is still better