DuckDuckGo seems very limited in searching
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I use several search engines, mainly Andisearch, Perplexity and You, all three are powered by AI. I don't care so much about the number of results offered by different search engines, but how many of these results are relevant to what I'm looking for.
Google offers a lot of results, true, but half of page 1 is ads and SEO crap and on page 3 you can already hide a corpse.
Andisearch and other AI search engines do not offer many results, but what they do show are relevant results that respond to the query made, with the sources for future investigations, apart from a summary of the content. -
@bodvar said in DuckDuckGo seems very limited in searching:
Why is it that my searches with DDG only give me about 10-20% of real hits compared to Google Search? โฆ
โฎAre you able to provide a search example to use as a point of reference for this issue?
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DDG is getting worse and give me too much top-position ads. Sad as i liked the search engine. But searching on a smartphone is a hell now f.ex. if you want a italian or greek restaurant's deliver service and you get many pages of lieferando And i know how to reduce search term to get better searches.
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Greetings!
You may try Swisscows.com, it uses it's own indexing engine, and is the next alternative to privacy focused search engine.
They display good values, such as no indecent content, and is kids friendly. Search results are accurate and fair.
They are worth a try, it costs nothing to give them a try for a couple days or weeks!
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I ditched DDG when they introduced censorship during Covid and the Ukraine war.
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@yojimbo274064400 Try searching from an Icelandic IP address! DDG seems to be all about the USA and not searcing Icelandic or other European sites much.
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@bodvar This is exactly my issue with DDG. It might be great in the US, but since I'm not in the US it just doesn't work so great for me.
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@bodvar from a mere search algorithm point of view, qwant seems to be a valid google search alternative
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@jane-n I think any default/private search engines should be chosen once at onboarding/welcome page then is up to users change it if their regions stop to support them.
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@Hadden89 I use Qwant and love it
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@Hadden89 Thanks, I'll give it a try some time soon.
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@bodvar, anyway is a good choice to use several search engines, what you don't find in one, you'll find it with others. Qwant is a valid search engine, you can try also Mojeek, Startpage, Ecosia, or also one of the AI searches I named before (soon all search engines will include AI)
https://andisearch.com
https://www.perplexity.ai
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@Hadden89, choosing which settings and how many of them are presented during onboarding is a difficult task. On the one hand, you want to show all the important settings and highlights of the browser. On the other hand you can't make it too long as people might give up even before they've really started using the browser.
But I'm sure our design/dev team have good reasons for including/excluding certain settings. -
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brave > DDG
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@alcazone Brave Greater Than DuckDuckGo? Or what does that mean?
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Common internet slang for Brave is better than DDG.
I have used DDG for months if not years -
@DoctorG honestly, Brave Search paired with Vivaldi is the best combo, in my opinion. The two of the best worlds together!
DDG is degrading in quality and losing its core values.
I have been using DDG from 2010 to 2022. -
I personally prefer Mojeek and You.com. Mojeek is a independent search engine and it's growing rapidly.
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Qwant also "gladly" complied with government requests for censorship of the war in Ukraine, at which point I sent them packing. I think Brave search has come a long way; it's databases are mature now. The only bad thing is they apparently have given up independent image searching, defaulting to the user's choice of Bing or Google for that. I have been using Startpage for a couple of years now, after being convinced they still are respecting privacy. But I just switched my default back to Brave; I think it's better now.
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Personally, I don't like anything about Brave, less for reasons of its efficiency, but more, what is also important to me, the business ethics it has, more than debatable, as I was able to verify recently in Mastodom from a user who tried the search engine BraveAI for information on the LGBTI movement in the United States, with the answer that it was an organization of sick people, corresponding to the orientation in the sphere to the far right of the Brave company and its CEO.
In the past there was a scandal because Brave diverted searches to associated crypto companies, which reduces confidence in using them, although they promised not to do it again. As I said, business ethics is also important, even in a valid product.
https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect