No more Google

[VicParticipant @vic]

What search engine do you folks use? I ask as the default with Safari on iPadOS was Google on my iPad. I’ve had to change this to DuckDuckGo as the Google AI results has been terribly inaccurate in some of my recent searches. Ecosia was another option out of the five in the OS, not seen that before.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Google has been driving me mad too, Vic

DuckDuckGo works for me

MichaelG.

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

I rarely use Google — avoid it like the plague !!  I have used duckduckgo for many years and find it OK, not under any illusions though there will be a heap if my info distributed by ????? on the internet Bah !!

John

[Andy StopfordParticipant @andystopford50521]

DuckDuckGo for me. And I don’t use AI since no purpose of mine justifies the extravagant use of resources.

[samuel heywoodParticipant @samuelheywood23031]

startpage, ‘cos it’s private & google knows far too much about me already. LOL!

[FulmenParticipant @fulmen]

I’m on DDG, using Google as a second option. But I’m not really happy with either.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

[Andy StopfordParticipant @andystopford50521]

[FulmenParticipant @fulmen]

@Dave: I too search mostly for technical topics, and Google is still better. The gap IS closing, but not because DDG is getting better IMHO. I don’t really fret too much about privacy, it’s the sheer power of Google I don’t like. I do not welcome our new corporate overlords.

[VersabossParticipant @versaboss]

Interesting that nobody seems to know Startpage. I use this (almost) exclusive on PC and Smartphone. It finds all I search for, and it does not collect my data.

Try it, you will not be disappointed.

Btw, it would be interesting to agree about one (or several) search items, and then compare say the first 5 answers from the different search engines.

Kind regards
Hans

[VicParticipant @vic]

[Morse HomologyParticipant @morsehomology91685]

I use Brave Search; it’s definitely better than google, though it misses things on the “long tail” sometimes. Also exclusively use their browser. I hate looking at ads (except on here).

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I occasionally find I have accidentally entered a query into the Explorer url entry box and it goes off giving me Bing results. Rather annoying that it can’t be changed. No i don’t want to use Chrome or whatever other browser.

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Bazyle – assume you are using Edge? If so, look at the instructions for altering default search engine, for example here https://www.howtogeek.com/221709/how-to-change-your-default-search-engine-in-microsoft-edge/

Rob

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Thanks Rob. I had changed the default to Google and assumed it was ignoring it but your link showed me another setting that I needed to change to “address bar”.

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