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What search engine do you use? (and why?) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by pumpkin@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'll go first. I've used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I'm currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg's but at least I'm planting trees, so there's that.

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not comparable in quality at all...

[–] darcmage@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't that hard to determine without specifying which engines are used in your chosen instance? Searx/Searng has provided superior results for me using a combination of engines compared to anything provided by any of the alternatives by themselves.

[–] theory@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

It can literally use any search engine you think of as a backend, so its strictly higher quality? Unless thats what you meant