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Here's my experience with some search engines:
A Tier -- Gives me the closest results.
B Tier -- Gives me decent results.
C Tier -- Gives me poor results.
Open Source Front Ends - Results quality varies.
F Tier -- It sucks.
If anyone knows of any other search engine not in this list, let me know so I can try it out.
That'd be news to me and an ad hoc comparison I just did shows results much closer to Google than Bing with results usually just locally having switched places while on Bing it's an entirely different order.
They do(did?) use Bing for mobile search results because daddy Google forced them to not be competitive on the platform they're most interested in.
Now that I'm trying it again, it actually is similar to Google's results but it filters some of the more useful results I get from Google based on some things I'm searching up.
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/12727471498644-What-are-Startpage-s-enhanced-search-results-
I don't know of this only applies to the widges or actual search results.
I can agree with the google placement if you're assuming the searcher has experience with search operators, most of the time if I'm not wasting time crafting my search results to exclude all the SEO spam sites and Q&A sites written with the same amount of padding as a middle school book report, DuckDuckGo will give me better results than Google.
Is you.com having issues currently? Tried test searches and every content element just keeps loading
It works for me right now.
Thanks for testing. Pinpointed the issue to ad blocking on DNS. I have no idea which domains it needs whitelisted
Where can I find soemthing about startpage changing to bing? Can't find anything about that in my search engine ๐
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/12727471498644-What-are-Startpage-s-enhanced-search-results-
I don't know if this applies to the actual search results or the widgets. But upon checking, the results are actually still closer to Google but it filters out some results that I find useful. It also pulls up the first Wikipedia article it can find in the first page and displays it as a little widget on the side even if it's far from relevant.
How about yahoo.com?
I'll try it too this week.
what about yep.com ?
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try it out this week when I work on my papers.