Someone (average smartphone user) complained to me the other day that there isn’t a clear solution to navigating the web because it’s either ai slop or the results are poor.

And I kinda agree, nowadays you do have to put in some more effort to get what you’re looking for.

And so I told them I’d compile a list of which search engines are best for what purpose.

So far I have:

Startpage: works, but does a poor job of finding product codes and whatnot.

Duckduckgo: gives more general results afaik

Ecosia: works great but relies on bing

I have tried things like qwant ect but haven’t really settled on those.

Any other suggestions?

I’d tell em to use udm14 but it’s still google so I’d rather keep that as a plan B.

OQB @FreddiesLantern@leminal.space

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    I’m waiting for a real European search engine that is also digitally sovereign i.e uses its own index. The EU funded one sub index but it was promptly ignored by every single european bing frontend (Ecosia, qwant, startpage, etc.). Why, I don’t know.

    Until then, the only search engine that seems to be doing any good with ad money is Ecosia.