Google is way to compliant to DMCA request resulting in bad result.
Bing doesnt seems to care and will happily link to live and replay of sport event (the main reason I use it personnaly) even as a first result.
PS : If you’re french dont forget to change your DNS or any quality site will not load
Yup, honestly haven’t seen much difference at all when I switched a few years ago. But thanks to this post I learned about SearX. Gonna give that try now. Curious though if using a browser like Chrome for example, would make it a pointless? That’s what drew me to duck since they have their own app.
I just figured if you’re trying to avoid google then using their own browser might have some risk too. But I don’t know for sure if they still able to track anything you do on an alternative search website.
Chrome has other features and potential tracking. But those don’t make not using Google as the search engine pointless. You’re still cutting away a lot of activity.
Pro tip: if you do insist on using Google scroll to the bottom until you see a notice like the one below.
You can then click on the complaint to see the URLs that were removed.
They’ve wisened up a bit and now require a (throwaway) email to access the links, but chances are that if you’re looking for something more obscure, the link you seek is still there.
Google nowadays works if you wanna search something from Wikipedia or like the same 20 websites. For anything else, good luck going through all the SEO autogenerated garbage.
After seeing this comic for the first time years ago I always try to keep it in mind when someone tells me they are just learning about something. We all learn similar things for the first time only at different parts of our lives and being able to be a part of helping someone learn something new is a great feeling.
I got to show my niece and nephew the diet coke and mentos thing. It has become a core memory for the 3 of us and was one of my top 10 funnest days of my life. Sharing knowledge is fun.
I we r talking about books, I’m still using z-library because it has almost any book I can ever need to serch, its slower since now is an onion site, an its a plain http transfer, but as I said before, I can find almost any book in there.
bing is great with results if you know the right keywords to use!
I use duckduckgo atm which I think gets some of its results from bing. I only ever go to Google to see the quick summaries without clicking to any page when you type “what’s the weather” or “10 GBP to USD” and stuff like that
Alternatives to Google, to YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, alternatives to Chromium/Chrome browsers - these are important things to be aware of.
SearXNG has search handled for me - scraping Bing and Google amongst others (and often I see Google results are low down on my list).
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Google is getting passed by in many ways. Chrome feels like a second rate browser now.
Been using the Duckduckgo app for awhile now. Works fantastic, F google
Duckduckgo largely based it’s classic results on Bing.
So I guess this is an agree to OP?
I’ve been using duckduckgo for many years. So I wouldn’t know how it compares to Google results.
Yup, honestly haven’t seen much difference at all when I switched a few years ago. But thanks to this post I learned about SearX. Gonna give that try now. Curious though if using a browser like Chrome for example, would make it a pointless? That’s what drew me to duck since they have their own app.
Why would using Chrome make it pointless?
I just figured if you’re trying to avoid google then using their own browser might have some risk too. But I don’t know for sure if they still able to track anything you do on an alternative search website.
Chrome has other features and potential tracking. But those don’t make not using Google as the search engine pointless. You’re still cutting away a lot of activity.
Apparently porn as well.
Pro tip: if you do insist on using Google scroll to the bottom until you see a notice like the one below.
You can then click on the complaint to see the URLs that were removed.
They’ve wisened up a bit and now require a (throwaway) email to access the links, but chances are that if you’re looking for something more obscure, the link you seek is still there.
This is so poetically stupid on Google’s part I love it.
Pretty sure it’s intentional.
Google is just better at censorship.
I use searx because it aggregates over multiple search engines. You can find searx nodes here: https://searx.space/
You should try out LibreX. Built in torrent search engine. Works similarly to SearX.
what’s the domain, I can’t find it
I’m not OP but I was curious and went looking.
I think this is it: https://librex.devol.it/
Seconded, I also use this and have it integrated into Firefox as my default search. I also use Mulad for DoH protection
Google nowadays works if you wanna search something from Wikipedia or like the same 20 websites. For anything else, good luck going through all the SEO autogenerated garbage.
So far the only comments have been ‘everyone knows this already’, but I did not, so thank you for posting it
Just because something is old knowledge doesn’t mean it’s common knowledge!
People get so weird about that. Yeah I knew, but before I knew, I didn’t.
Knowing about something before others (and bragging about it) gives people a feeling of self-satisfaction.
They’re part of today’s lucky 10000.
https://xkcd.com/1053/
After seeing this comic for the first time years ago I always try to keep it in mind when someone tells me they are just learning about something. We all learn similar things for the first time only at different parts of our lives and being able to be a part of helping someone learn something new is a great feeling.
I got to show my niece and nephew the diet coke and mentos thing. It has become a core memory for the 3 of us and was one of my top 10 funnest days of my life. Sharing knowledge is fun.
Unpopular opinion: chocolate tastes good
Woah, friend. This is unpopular opinion, not crazy opinion. You need to calibrate or leave. Friend.
I use Brave and occasionally Crowdview for questions… any reason why I should find a Searx instance instead?
SearX go brrr There’s even a tab for ′files′ which is all just torrents
Yandex is the best when it comes to pirate searches, hands down
All pray for the soul of RARGB, all praise the all mighty RUTOR.
It’s been a bit since the death of RARBG. What is the next best site?
I usually use rutor.info, x1337.to, and torrentgalaxy.to for movie’s.
I we r talking about books, I’m still using z-library because it has almost any book I can ever need to serch, its slower since now is an onion site, an its a plain http transfer, but as I said before, I can find almost any book in there.
Searx is the best because its uses multiple search engines at the same time
I’m no Microsoft fan boy, but I think Bing is better than Google at most things. The only thing I use google for now a days is a spell checker.
bing is great with results if you know the right keywords to use!
I use duckduckgo atm which I think gets some of its results from bing. I only ever go to Google to see the quick summaries without clicking to any page when you type “what’s the weather” or “10 GBP to USD” and stuff like that
So duckduckgo which is primarily bing would be best for piracy privacy?
Alternatives to Google, to YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, alternatives to Chromium/Chrome browsers - these are important things to be aware of.
SearXNG has search handled for me - scraping Bing and Google amongst others (and often I see Google results are low down on my list).