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Is anyone using Google search less than before? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I ask because I've been doing a lot of research the last few weeks and Google search has really let me down. I've been finding better results on DuckDuckGo and Bing. Is this a recent thing with Google or am I out of the loop? Any other search recommendations?

Edit: In no particular order, some recommended alternatives to Google
SearXNG
Whoogle
Ecosia
Brave
Dogpile
DuckDuckGo
Kagi
Swiss Cows
Qwant
Bing

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[โ€“] styx 1 points 1 year ago

I am running my own instance of searxng and it returns a mix of whatever engine I select, so I am very happy about it. One issue I am having is I cannot put a search widget in Android, and cannot add it as a search engine because I am using POST requests for privacy and Firefox Android only adds search engines that use query strings. I might have to write a widget of my own for that ๐Ÿค”