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In general, I let a lot of stuff find me via aggregators like Reddit and HN. If I’m searching for specific things, I’ll often go to a specialized site like Stack Overflow. But if I don’t know exactly what I’m after, then it’s the “search Google, put a couple key terms in quotes, repeat” dance.
I append the word "reddit" to most non-technical google searches. Platform has been around long enough that _someone_ on it has discussed the issue I'm looking for
yandex.com I usually search for books, movies and mp3s. With Google is kinda hard (or impossible) to do the same.
That‘s Russian IIRC, is it safe to use?
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The Bangs are fantastic time savers too. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
I still just run queries on Google. If I know it's a stackexchange site I'll just go directly to the site in question.
Other [everyday] stuff:
It depends. Sometimes I Google it, sometimes I do Google / Reddit search.
In short, Google ain't that broken for me. Sure, I hate that the top results are usually ads but it's not that bad to motivate me to change. I'm just not logged on to Google when I search for stuff.
And no, I have no weird searches that I need to hide. I'm a normie.
The main selling points for me are:
- No ads
- Improved Privacy
- Open Source
- Customisability (Plugins, Search Engines)
I'm quite content with the search results even though they're not quite on par with the quality that Google used to have.
What kind of things are you looking for? I've been using Kagi (a paid search engine with a free tier) and quite like it but tbh it is only marginally better than google at the moment. I've also been trying to ask questions on forums more when I can't find answers (or blog myself) that way people in the future can find the.
Kagi used to be fine. It gets its results from Google, though, and recently it became much worse than Google. I'm back to Google and having a rage aneurysm every time it refuses to respect my quotes (which is always). NLP is the worst thing that ever happened to search, other than SEO and content farms of course.
I just wish someone would bring back alta vista with a larger crawl index (or even just a 'specialized' crawl index for tech stuff). The search language was awesome for geeks. Trying to make search engines more appealing to 'casual users' has basically left 'power users' high and dry.
yandex.com I usually search for books, movies and mp3s. With Google is kinda hard (or impossible) to do the same.