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Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org
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I'm kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it's 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they're useless. It's always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying anything new.

I want to see the results from those small blogs that are sometimes linked here. I can't come up with one since... you know that's why I'm asking how to find them, but you know them; they talk about nerdy stuff and are not afraid to get technical in whatever topic they discuss.

Also duckduckgo and qwant do the same thing. If there is a way to curate the results to better fit my needs then that'd be great too!

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[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried it but unfortunately it's very similar to Google search just without the trackers, and sometimes the results are a bit worse (worth it for not having the trackers though)

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has been my experience as well with duckduckgo. I want to like it, and I do have it as my default search but I often end up searching Google after unsatisfactory results from duckduckgo.

Thanks for asking this question!

[–] reka@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

My process is:

  • Search DDG
  • If that's not satisfactory (it is IME about 80% of the time) prefix with !sp to search googles index proxied by start page