• rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social
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    17 hours ago

    What internet do you live in?

    I use Duck duck go at work and Qwant (European) privately.

    Both are infinitely better than Google and They’re only my preferred ones, there are dozens out there.

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      56 minutes ago

      DDG and Ecosia use Bing, so depending on why you want to ditch Google, it’s hardly a real alternative (to big tech). Qwant is slow and shows far less results. I still have to go to Google for some queries.

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      16 hours ago

      I do the same, but at times I use Ecosia instead of Qwant. The results are borderline unusable, just like in case of Google - too many commercial links, disrespect for the exact expressions I use or their proximity in text. If something is called similar to a product… So I find these search engines similar to Google, I use them to avoid Google, not to get better results. When image searching, I sometimes go back to Google when I don’t get enough results - Google usually finds more.