• mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    People still use Google? I thought many of us, and specially in tech using platforms like this, left it behind years ago. But maybe not as many as I think.

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      Alphabet’s market cap is 1.5 trillion dollars. How do you suppose their stock is worth so much if people are not using google? Ads are their primary source of revenue.

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        Kagi is not only decent but much better. It’s fantastic. I switched when it was new and never looked back.

        Try a few searches with both Kagi and Google and you should see quite different results.

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            Lol that’s a wild concept. $5 for 300 searches… so now when I go down a rabbit hole I have to count my searches.

            Also, that gives them perverse incentives. If they make searching just a little frustrating they can get more searches out of you = more money. That’s not right.

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        Duckduckgo has worked wonders for me, the app has a search widget as well.

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            DuckDuckGo can search using almost any search engine anonymously. Want to search Bing? !b query. Google? !g query. Scratch this, I remembered wrong what those do.
            I do believe there’s a setting to aggregate the top results from several different engines as the default search algorithm.

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              DuckDuckGo has a problem with booleans. I had to give up the Duck because of this. I’m using Mojeek, MetaGer and SearXNG these days.

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              !g and !b doesn’t anonymously do anything. It literally just opens up Google’s and Bing’s website with your query.

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                Ah, you’re right, my bad. I could have sworn I remembered a search syntax on ddg for searching different sites with an anonymous query - apparently ! operators are not it

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          Don’t forget about bangs for searching alternate sites: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs !w = wikipedia, !e = ebay, !zillow = guess, !r = reddit, etc

          Just put your bang in front of the rest of the search you want to do on that site: !g why doesn’t Google use bangs? !ddg Why does Duck Duck Go use bangs?