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Google search is still popular because it works the best for most people. Bing and the others pretty much suck.
I know I'll get downvoted but it's true. I try to use DDG where possible, and I'm not paying for Kagi. It's quite expensive and I'm not too sure I'd like it. Half the time DDG doesn't find something Google easily finds.
And yes I know Google is worse than it was like 3 years ago, but DDG results are way worse.
Fyi: this also depends on local factors and the kind of stuff your looking for.
In my experience ddg is awful which is strange cause its powered by bing results while Bing result are ok, on par with google for searching and finding websites/services
Startpage wich is deanonimized google works great on premise but its unusable If you want to find local services/stores or governments sites. (It makes total sense though, its the tradeoff of sharing location data). At some point the top result was a starbucks on the other side of the planet and i had actually provided the settings with my nationality and main language.
Google remains king when it comes to digital shopping, results list almost all the major local retailers for me. Bing seems to pick favorite more selectively.
In all seriously of late the tools ivebeen the most happy with are:
I seem to be naturally moving away from search engines in favor of just a few bookmarked sites where the real content is. Most of the internet that i havent seen is either not my thing or feels dead
Right, yeah it does depend. In general though, DDG is just bad about half the time for me in general. Do you know if startpage has a
!gkind of directive like DDG? I may have to give that one a shot if so.Not sure, but if you use Firefox this functionality comes by default and is customizable.
you can add other search engines shortcuts trough add-ons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/startpage-private-search/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
I just tried a search on startpage that gave me a lot of issues on DDG last night. Immediately found what I needed! Thanks!