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Getting unhappy about DuckDuckGo (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For several years I've been using DuckDuckGo instead of Google Search, and I've been overall quite happy with the results. Only rarely had I to resort to Google search (!g).

During the last month or two, however, I've found myself using the !g switch and Google search more than half of the time. DuckDuckGo shows no or few results where Google shows more (and useful) ones.

Still I don't want to give in. So:

Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo?
Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

I haven't noticed any issues with the quality of DDG results, but if you feel the results are lackluster, you could try a metasearch engine like SearXNG. You can self-host it or use one of the many public instances maintained by the community. The main advantage, apart from the privacy focused aspect of the project, is that you can pull results from multiple search engines with a single query. It's highly customizable too. You can configure it exactly how you want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

This shit right here!

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