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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Have you tried https://duckduckgo.com/ . I've used them a very long time. I do not use Google search.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

DDG just uses Google's search engine, minus all the trackers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Where did you hear this? This isn't true. If you want google without the tracking, use StartPage (if you're using DDG this can be accessed with the !sp bang preface)

DDG uses Bing as their fallback engine but also does a lot of propitiatory indexing of its own

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"propitiatory indexing" is a delightful autocorrect :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't even think I've ever heard the word "propitiatory" used so TIL from my own error

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