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Should it do something special? It doesn't seem to be the case for me, I see nothing unexpected.
Bing: http://i.imgur.com/ChfIVts.png Google: http://imgur.com/47UUNBc.png
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Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
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Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#52I like Bing webmaster tools. In some areas it is even better than Google's
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#53I've been using DuckDuckGo for about a year without ill-effects. Although sometimes I have to go to Google, often when the results are disappointing I try !g and the results with Google are just as disappointing. It's also actually easier to switch to an image search using !gi than it is to click the image search with the mouse at Google's site.
DuckDuckGo isn't that great, but the !bang options make it easy to diversify, and branch searches to multiple targets, to compare outcomes. Two things become obvious at that point, and the main one is that other search engines don't just customize search results to individuals, they actually spend costly human resources currating and QA'ing results. DuckDuckGo's search results kind of suck, and the reason they're not…
Is the !g bang gives you personalized results as good as google results ?
Also, it's a bad design decision to make bangs belong to search engines. In the past the firefox extension lookpick[1] solved that problem very well: They crowdsourced search engnines, had their own search box in the right corner of the screen, and to make it easy to pick the right search engines, search engines used searchable tags.
On top of that, if you add easy help for search operators for each site(also crowd sourced), would be really useful.
I wish there was something like that for chrome.
[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lookpick-sear...
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#54Question: Why vertical search engines dont succeed much?
There are tons of successful vertical search engines, but the line between "search" and an app gets blurry. As examples, Amazon, Octopart, Spotify (if you count music search), the DPLA (a non-profit library search), Shodan, IconFinder, etc.
I've explored this in personal projects- a search engine for lectures (https://www.findlectures.com) and stock photos (https://stickstock.com).
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#55Stopped using Google a while back. Used https://www.startpage.com for years. Just switched to https://www.qwant.com late last year.
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#56What the article skips over is !bang searches in DuckDuckGo. This allows you to search other engines, but still have theirs as default All the engines mentioned can be searched via it. !b !bing !s !startpage !vimeo !giphy etc.....
Absolutely love the bang searches in DDG. The most used for me is !w for sure, easily go to a wikipedia article. Only issue I have with it at the moment is that it tends to look for articles in my native language instead of in English but you can probably configure that somewhere and I just have not looked yet. It falls back to English anyway when it can not find one in Dutch. EDIT: For people on here, !hackernews mi…
!wen goes to english wikipedia
!wit goes to italian wikipedia
and so on
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely love the bang searches in DDG. The most used for me is !w for sure, easily go to a wikipedia article. Only issue I have with it at the moment is that it tends to look for articles in my native language instead of in English but you can probably configure that somewhere and I just have not looked yet. It falls back to English anyway when it can not find one in Dutch. EDIT: For people on here, !hackernews mi…
!wen goes to english wikipedia !wit goes to italian wikipedia and so on
Thank you!
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#58One search engine to consider is Searx [0], you can easily host your own instance locally or on a public facing server [1]. What it does is aggregate search results from multiple engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo...), proxying your request making tracking and profiling impossible. [0]: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ [1]: https://searx.laquadrature.net/
I remember trying yacy years ago – do you know how they compare?
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#59Can anyone tell me if I am logged into chrome and use a non-google search engine, are they tracking the queries I make in the omni box?
Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)
#60What the article skips over is !bang searches in DuckDuckGo. This allows you to search other engines, but still have theirs as default All the engines mentioned can be searched via it. !b !bing !s !startpage !vimeo !giphy etc.....
Absolutely love the bang searches in DDG. The most used for me is !w for sure, easily go to a wikipedia article. Only issue I have with it at the moment is that it tends to look for articles in my native language instead of in English but you can probably configure that somewhere and I just have not looked yet. It falls back to English anyway when it can not find one in Dutch. EDIT: For people on here, !hackernews mi…
!hn for the 10X people ;).