I'll give a search on Duck Duck Go, and if I can't find what I need then I'll use Google.
But at this point I'm using Google Bard and ChatGPT more and more, at least at work.
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Duck duck go. Google for maps
I've been using Ecosia for a while and liking it. I think the results are usually better than Google and the image search is way more useful, still gives you direct links to the image files. Though most importantly I like planting trees.
They're all garbage. Content farms and SEO nonsense has been flooding search engines with useless garbage for years. Either that or pages that simply copy forum threads over and over and over so you get a whole results page of what appears to be different sites, but are all a copy of the same forum thread from 2007. Or they grab your search string and then you have a page that looks like it's exactly what you need, only to find out it's scammy bullshit. But AI is making that whole problem exponentially worse.
I've tried DDG many many times over the years. Sometimes it's ok. But overall, most of the results i get just aren't relevant, and it seems like over the last year or two DDG's results have gotten way worse. I always end up back on Google. As crappy as Google is, the results still end up being more relevant overall.
As often as I hear others with the opposite opinion, my experience is very similar to yours. If I want to find the answer to a question fast, I just use Google. If I'm just browsing a new topic, I try DDG first and much of the time end up using Google anyway.
Bing and DDG.
Searxng, reddit, gmap or OSM for mapping.
I use ecosia.org. They are actively doing something regarding the environment (tree planting projects) and are privacy minded.
Ecosia. I like trees.
Do you know if ecosia is still using google under the hoods?
Apparently not, but the (usable) results are much the same. Ecosia was borrowing from yahoo and bing, but they changed that some years ago.
I have no idea of what or how they're doing it now, but then I also only search explicit things. I never liked the idea of a search engine trying to understand what I was actually looking for, so I state myself clearly in that regard.
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Google and ChatGPT, I tried DDG several years ago, but the results were not good, might try it again
DuckDuckGo. Its results are much better than Google's in my experience. Whenever I Google something, all I get is a list of online stores I've never heard of, and they have nothing to do with my search input.
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Self-hosted SearXNG. Very easy to self-host, and (for the most part) works just fine
I'm interested in that. Does it take a lot of resources (ram, cpu, disk ) ?
DuckDuckGo, and before that, I used ixquick(which is now StartPage).
Currently DuckDuckGo, but I will switch to SearXNG because of this.
Because of what? One idiot that broke his search engine somehow?
I use SearXNG and Ecosia.