21% of fedizen still use Google search. We need to change that!
@JubalBarca @PaulaToThePeople When you need google results Startpage.com will show them to you w/out having to go to google. So it’s worth a look. There are also many searx instances that scrape Google, and that’s even better if you boycott Google because it grabs the results without generating ad revenue for Google.
My install https://whoogle-search.abidnevesinjac.repl.co/
You can install your own for free at replit.com ...
@PaulaToThePeople guilty ._.
Which search engine would you recommend?
@lilianalytic I use Ecosia for most stuff and DuckDuckGo if it's more private.
@PaulaToThePeople @lilianalytic I use DuckDuckGo, but on rare occasions I still enter “!g” from inside DDG if the search results seem lacking, but again, over time that has become more & more unnecessary, for me anyway.
@donhawkins I never knew about this feature! Thanks for sharing it.
@PaulaToThePeople duckduckgo, qwant, ecosia (bing) are good alternatives.
@PaulaToThePeople Interesting result; would guess that the fedizens are not very representative… Would guess “out there” 80%+ are using Google. Personally very happy with @Qwant . Ecosia is also great, I hear but bing-based. Not so sure about DuckDuckGo. Great engine, but US based. Qwant is France-based, and in 90% of my searches I’m happy with the result
@PaulaToThePeople I always use Ecosia first but switch to Google regularly when Ecosia doesn't find what I need - unfortunately especially the image search on Google is still a significant cut above Ecosia's, and it tends to find academic papers I need more reliably.