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Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by blauditore »

adrianratnapala wrote: post #37
blauditore wrote: post #27

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This is something that's been annoying me for years now. Keyboard navigation used to work on Google with Firefox, but stopped a while ago. It still works on Chrome, and by now I'm pretty sure they're intentionally not fixing/enabling it on FF - not sure why though. I don't see any reason other than pushing users towards Chrome...

Disclaimer: I'm a Googler. I find google.com is more broken on Chrome than in Firefox. In firefox, it just just annoying moves the search field as you start type. In chrome you are not allowed to use it at all. Instead it forces you to use the location bar. Sometimes the location bar does a Google search. Sometimes it goes to the URL you type in. Sometimes, other things happen. Occasionally the thing that actually ha…

This only seems to apply to Chrome's default start page which looks like google.com, but actually isn't. It seems to work similar as in FF when navigating to google.com first.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by vkorsunov »

ronsor wrote: post #75
vkorsunov wrote: post #73

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Maybe Github, G+, ...?

That works too; perhaps I should create my own authentication service and api...

It is good idea, but for developers...many users can't create own authentification method Tell me please about your search engine Ronsor, it is your code? Or you use some open-source project? Why you create this search?

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by rascul »

unhammer wrote: post #58
cuonic wrote: post #40

One 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?

Yacy is a search engine. Searx passes your query off to other search engines.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by adrianratnapala »

blauditore wrote: post #81
adrianratnapala wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disclaimer: I'm a Googler. I find google.com is more broken on Chrome than in Firefox. In firefox, it just just annoying moves the search field as you start type. In chrome you are not allowed to use it at all. Instead it forces you to use the location bar. Sometimes the location bar does a Google search. Sometimes it goes to the URL you type in. Sometimes, other things happen. Occasionally the thing that actually ha…

This only seems to apply to Chrome's default start page which looks like google.com, but actually isn't. It seems to work similar as in FF when navigating to google.com first.

It happens when I navigate explicitly to google.com as well.

But I think I have seen other behaviours in the past, so it all probably the exact Chrome version etc.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by Markoff »

sveme wrote: post #23
Markoff wrote: post #13

most of the engines don't pass my simple test - enter name of movie and i expect to see aggregated basic info and ratings of movie at least from 2-3 websites without opening them it's a bit better with currency exchange 5USD to EUR

Duckduckgo is pretty good in that respect: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=arrival&t=ffab&ia=meanings However, the real reason your wish will not be granted is that those 2-3 websites are absoluely opposed to such a scenario, as people will not visit their websites anymore. If I remember it correctly, Google had that feature years ago and was sued by Yelp(?) because they basically stole all their traffic.

no ratings, no basic information, now let's compare it to this

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=arrival

unless there will be another engine which will provide me with same information as you can see on right side of screen I am not even bothering to try it, it's such basic feature that I think every engine should provide it

Google has this feature, so I am not sure why they can and others can't.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by blauditore »

blauditore wrote: post #27
briantakita wrote: post #17

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DuckDuckGo also has keyboard-friendly navigation. No clicking necessary.

This is something that's been annoying me for years now. Keyboard navigation used to work on Google with Firefox, but stopped a while ago. It still works on Chrome, and by now I'm pretty sure they're intentionally not fixing/enabling it on FF - not sure why though. I don't see any reason other than pushing users towards Chrome...

Update: I just found out it's related to the "Google Instant" feature, which was somehow disabled in my case - it worked in private mode, but not when I was logged in. Enabling it brought back keyboard shortcuts.
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