Essentially saying that due to seo spam and commercialization, Google is now useless for search and more and more people do site:reddit.com.
I think it's a little extreme but agree generally.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2022
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I stay with Andisearch, Whoogle, Metager and DDG (the only proprietary search engine in my collection). Supposing Reddit search is worse than Google, respect privacy, it shares data with Google, M$, and with this with TowerData (keylogging) and others. Reddit is worse than FB, because of this I use Lemmy or Raddle.
+1 for Metager
I think it's generally a good sign for a searcher's privacy, if you look at the adressbar and the search url that shows up and also shows up like that in the history.
For example, if I search with Andi, Whoogle and other search engines that respect privacy, regardless of what I search, only
https://searchengine/searchappears in the adressbar and in the history, in all others apearshttps://searchengine/search/object of the searchwhich also later apears in the history.Searching Lemmy With Brave search in the adressbar and history
https://search.brave.com/search?q=lemmySame search with Whoogle
https://whoogle.sdf.org/searchIn Andi only apears the url of the Andisearch
https://andisearch.comWith Metager apart of the item, apear the config code
https://metager.org/meta/meta.ger3?eingabe=lemmy&submit-query=&focus=webAll these respect privacy and only stores the history locally, but its better when the search item don't apear in the history, because of this, Whoogle, Andi, Startpage and SearX are those which I use most, Metager, DDG and others only in occasions to contrast some information.