This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
You can just right click on the url bar to add search engines to firefox, I did that for the nixos package repository and youtube.
As for duck duck go, you can try searxng instances though you are putting your trust in some random admins in that case.
It’s not a blind trust system with searxng. They have an integrity check in order to be added to the list. This is relative to the searxng GitHub repository which is fully open.
Disclaimer - Spend your money how you want. Use what works for your needs and moral standing. This post is a data point for consideration, not an endorsement.
I use Kagi with the unlimited search paid version. Whether it's my own needs, friends, family, etc, I always seem to be the one doing the searching for everyone I interact with. After years of Google feeding more and more sponsored links into the results I switched to DDG, and after about 6 months of finding their results lackluster I tried Kagi.
For me, it works. I don't know that I'll use it forever or anything but at the moment it does a better job of getting me reliable results within the first few sites and I can move on with my day. I just need quick, accurate search results. So far Kagi has been that.
I did the free trial thing a couple times to see how it worked before paying and I'd suggest that to anyone thinking about switching. Give it a week or two on trial accounts and if it sucks then it probably isn't for you.
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
They really need to prioritize Wikipedia in general, but, also, maybe I just need to make Wikipedia my homepage instead.
Use !w in front of your ddg search to search Wikipedia.
I’m not sure about how private it is, but I use Ecosia for my search engine. It works great for me, and the images are alright. They are pretty transparent with their privacy, and you help plant trees too!
Maybe Kagi (paid) or Searxng. I use mostly searxng but some kagi options are nice like blocking results from certain domains or lower their appearance in results...
I use seaxrng everyday, ddg if I cant find something and startpage for 🏴☠️
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.
Mullvad leta but it requires a mullvad account and that you're connected to your vpn
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.
Til lycos and Altavista still exist
I guess you could say the same about AskJeeves since they rebranded as just Ask.
I miss those days of the internet.
Me too. I'm personally not going to stop using ddg because it's a losing battle. It won't be long before the next little search engine sells out.
