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Getting unhappy about DuckDuckGo (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] scheep@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like SearXNG, you get all of all worlds

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've only used searx[ng] for several years. searx.space is pretty recommended to look for searxng working instances, as well as the ones that you might prefer depending of the country of the instance and so for. Public searx but no searxng working instances are really uncommon now a days.

Every now and then your preferred instance becomes useless (whether google finds its way to block it, or to apply an aggressive rate limiter, or the instance gets unmaintained), so one needs to look for another one.

DDG doesn't give bad results, but when I realized the majority of its results come from bing, meaning it's mostly a metasearch as well with a few entries of its own (that might have varied from that time), I then started to only use searx, and then when searx working instances were really hard to find I moved to searxng, and I'm happy with those instances. Again, at times I need to move to a different instance, though I've been using the last one I chose for more than a year now...

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

For me at least, searxng.world works. I just went to searx.space, opened loads of them in a list, and left the ones that weren’t blocked in my country. (the only ones left were searxng.world and two really specific local ones with alphabet soup names)