What search engine do you use to google?
@szescstopni I use Google ☝️
@ElGonzales My profound condolences.
@szescstopni startpage
DDG to find the page I want on Wikipedia.
@eheisman :) My default search is Wikipedia, DDG is second. BTW, it's good to get to know a civil engineer dealing with water resources.
@szescstopni Depends:
- ddg for general purpose searching
- wikipedia for looking for wikipedia articles
- sometimes startpage for variety
- SearXNG as the last resort. If it yields no results there is no hope
@PiTau Thanks, I haven't heard of SearX and SearXNG before. Will give it a try – I have a few hopeless cases that brought search results years ago but return nothing relevant now.
@szescstopni Just remember to turn on everything legal in your jurisdiction in search engine selection and don't underestimate porn sites. That's the place where I found scans of SFW user manual I've been looking for once. It is very rare nonetheless happens.
@PiTau I'm pretty sure there are a lot of good things on porn sites. Anyway, porn isn't bad. It's just like people – most of them aren't bad, but they don't make the news.
@PiTau @szescstopni But why bother with going to DuckDuckGo/Wikipedia/Startpage separately if you can just look up from all of them in SearXNG, since it is a metasearch engine that combines all?
@austin @szescstopni Reliability. If I want to use ddg, by querying it directly I don't get connection errors occasionally.
@szescstopni Kagi (because I have some subscription left) but I’m gonna go back to Bing quite soon since it’s AI stuff is very good at what I’m looking for
@pawel I've never used Bing. How does it deal with SEO results?
@szescstopni not great, not terrible, highly recommend checking it out because for me it delivers as good results as google does and it only has half of the trackers!
@pawel I'll give it a try. I recently searched for restaurants in Kraków, and the really good ones with great food but no SEO weren't there :)
@szescstopni if You have some tested results, that You think should be visible in good search engine, can You test qwant on them and let me know the results?
I'm using qwant since quite some time and I'm really satisfied, but I'm curious what will be Your opinion
@emill1984 @pawel That was years ago, so me memory might be failing. I tested one case now – qwant didn't find what I was looking for, neither did DDG, giving similar results, StartPage failed completely, But I'd need more time to check it.
@szescstopni > to google
i don’t google 🥰 i duck
@weirdtreething @domi qwant qwant qwant
@domi If you didn't think that was on purpose I don't know what more I can say.
@szescstopni if you didn’t think that my post was on purpose too, then.. :p
i just wanted to make a duck joke, dw
@domi :)
@szescstopni Mastodon
@szescstopni Whoogle.
@stiofi Will have to check it out.
@szescstopni I should search wikipedia more often! b/c really, I already know I want to start there.
I use DDG usually, but want to try Kagi.
https://kagi.com/
@szescstopni
Gruble / searxng
@szescstopni kagi has been my choise for a year now :)
@szescstopni startpage
@szescstopni SearXNG or @svmetasearch
@szescstopni SearXNG.
@szescstopni
I use searxng, selfhosted
@rysiek
@szescstopni
startpage, or metager (for german searches)
@szescstopni Modyfied SearXNG
@szescstopni StartPage
Unfortunately my instance allows only four choices, but I wanted to add more:
– Your parents
– Your children
– Your librarian
– TinEye