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What search engine do you use? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by SemioticStandard@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.

I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I'll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you're careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It's useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.

This article on Ars (and if you're not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results

Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.

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[–] eight_byte@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Kagi. Very happy with it. Best $5 it recently invested. Gives me much better results than Google and all the others.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I use mostly either ddg or brave search. I miss the google of pre 2010, when the majority of its results were good.

I also use Yandex whenever I'm looking for pirate stuff, the only engine that doesn't block those kinds of results.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Qwant (but I hate all search engines nowadays)

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Self-hosted Searxng. It's shared to multiple people which kills a lot of the usefulness in Google or others trying to track my instance.

[–] copylefty@lemmy.fosshost.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I tried this, but it kept saying 'Engine failed' or something on every other search. I never could figure out why. I might try again

Edit: Actually it was Searx I used. I'll spin up Searxng and see if it's improved

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I had some issues with searx.... Things are a bit better in my experience with searxng. Sometimes I still run into the error messages. But usually it's my fault more than anything (server bogged down, too many requests/searches across all my users, or internet blips)... I just rerun the search a few seconds later and it's usually good again.