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

submitted 6 months 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] 66 points 6 months ago (10 children)

DuckDuckGo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Does anyone care to explain the possible reason for downvoting this - is there something I am not aware of wrt DDG?

[–] Tyfud 11 points 6 months ago (8 children)

It's based on Bing from what I recall, and it's not necessarily the most accurate engine. I tried it for a few months and couldn't replace Google with it unfortunately.

[–] herrvogel 1 points 6 months ago

I agree, unfortunately. The only reason I stick with ddg over Google is because, unlike Google, they don't smother me with captchas the moment I enter a VPN.

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