It's impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing
If you know you want Logitech software, why not go directly to the Logitech site and search there?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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Bing does not allow for exclusion of specific phrases by using hyphens and quotes. You can put them in your query, but they will be ignored.
Searching for: Topic -TopicSimilar
Is identical to: Topic
No joke, I hesitated to even click on the thumbnail. That's what this bullshit modern internet has conditioned me to do.
It’s amazing how bad that is.
I've been using my own searxng instance for a few months now and my god I'm never going back.
Which search engines do you use with it? Google? Bing? Something else?
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Which one? Something paid or self hosted?
Self-hosted. That's not a typo, it's what it's called. Searxng.
Here's a list of puplic instances to try or use.
Cool, thanks! Something I've been meaning to try out.
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I mean... you went to Bing to search for a program. That's something that a new or inexperienced user would do, and Bing tried to help. It gave a direct link to the software (a link which I just tested to be working and safe on a virtual machine), it instructed how to do it using the official website, and then as a third option, it gave a link to the website.
I know that a lot of people will automatically assume a site like Softonic is loaded with malware (and I don't have the time to refute all of those claims) but the download they provided of the software was just a mirror of the official download and came with no added malware, spyware, or adware. Use at your own risk, but OP is pretty clearly fearmongering in an attempt to get people to give them internet points.
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If you are interested maybe look at this post I made comparing search engines
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💸 Microsoft 🤑 got 💰 paid 🫰 so... they managed to come out ahead of this whole ordeal just fine.
The rest of us can go suck a bag of dicks for all they care.
I would give startpage.com a shot i find it works even better than duckduckgo
Damn I'd love to use it but it does not have my country as an option to select region so pretty much useless to me sadly. Stuck to DDG abd google/bing it seems.
Thanks for the tip! I use startpage already, it's pretty good. From what I understand, it uses Google's search index under the hood.
There's also Brave search which (claims to be) privacy friendly and (claims to) have their own independent search index, so you could give that a try as well. I wouldn't say it's better that startpage or google tho
and (claims to) have their own independent search index
AFAIK their index is very small, so they use Bing to supplement it. Most search engines and voice assistants that aren't Google use Bing in some way, since it's the largest search index that has an official public API that anyone can use.
I’ve been using Brave search for a while as a daily driver. It’s usually pretty decent, but I fall back to google when looking for commercial stuff like local stores and products.
Oh my god that's amazing. Instructions on how to do what you're literally doing, dead internet theory is so correct. Instructions for robots by robots
Unpopular opinion: dead internet is not only real, but GOOD. Once robots get good enough to autonomously sign up for websites and make convincing posts, this will force us humans to go actually outside, make friends, form deep social relationship, and build lasting, resilient communities. Meanwhile on the internet, websites that are willing to allow AI content for money will eventually die out due to lack of actual users. The only remaining websites will be run by individuals and organizations with non-profit motives, and a strict human-only policy with verification based on word-of-mouth / invite system.
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Is softonic actually malware or an unreliable repository that may contain malware? I’ve never actually clicked in lol
I unknowingly downloaded some software from there when I was a kid, and, from what I remember, it came bundled with some sort of update manager or something. Even if it's not outright malware, I would wager most people who are looking to download logitech's utility don't want some irrelevant third-party garbage on their system. So AT BEST it's crapware / bloatware
They had some issues with their downloader in the past but that thing has been canned a long time ago. It's not a great site but it isn't malware.
That's the beauty of the internet. There's always a competitor. I don't have to use someone who had a bad reputation at one point but is fine now. I can just use someone else.
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