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I like duckduckgo’s interface and I feel they genuinely put a lot of effort to ensure people have a great experience using their search engine.
Whether its their !bang feature or integration with apple maps or their various themes. (Heck even their no js, search engine option is very cool too).
In terms of quality of links and interesting content, i havent come across a search engine better then marginalia[0] for that. But then i search for weird stuff, so who knows.
After self-hosting whoogle, I never look back. It’s still google but with a lot of junk removed. Sometimes I have to use yandex though, Google’s results are censored and politically biased anyway.
> Google’s results are censored and politically biased Source?
I’m not 100% sure it’s google but yeah, it happens often.
I havent had the need for Google Search as much anymore. I find that the content is lower quality and truly useful information is hard to find. If I need a product review I use YouTube or Reddit search. I increasingly use Github search for code. I use Google Maps for restaurant or store location/hours, then go to the linked website from there. I use wiki search (Firefox prefix) to find quick information on a topic. I…
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> it assumes everyone is somewhere in North America It really doesn't. The country selector is right below the tabs (All, Images, Videos, etc). Click the toggle and select a country.
most other major sites do this automatically...
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> it assumes everyone is somewhere in North America It really doesn't. The country selector is right below the tabs (All, Images, Videos, etc). Click the toggle and select a country.
Which (at least in my case) does little to nothing at all. With Google, that country selector _used to_ return websites located in the specified country (now not so much), but with ddg those results are mixed up with sites from nearby countries or countries that speak the same language.
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> Google’s results are censored and politically biased Source?
The hunter Biden laptop was censored, Hillary Clinton campaign paying for the Steele dossier, as was multiple things regarding covid: wuhan lab leak, vaccine adverse events, etc I’m not 100% sure it’s google but yeah, it happens often.