I've noticed lately my search results are a lot more mainstream bullshit than what I'm used to seeing. I have to dig multiple pages deep to find sources I'm looking for when just a year ago they'd be on the first page front and center. Also while driving to work this morning I heard a commercial on the radio for DuckDuckGo, twice. A commercial for DuckDuckGo on a popular radio station in my area is super sketchy considering the only other commercials they play these days are "GeT vAcCiNaTeD" propaganda sponsored by Pfizer/Biontech.
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Yep. Have this issue with Brave, too.
Lol
Yes, and I've wondered why Brave has all the triangles. Makes me think of the cabal and their pyramid/triangle obsession.
Yesterday somebody pointed me to metager, I'm trying that one out now. DDG was suppressing links to Ron Johnson's testimony.
I think DDG is a wrapper on bing so this isn't that surprising
DuckDuckGo is Microsoft Bing
Yandex and metacrawler look good so far
I had to switch from duckduckgo to yandex. Metacrawler is good to know, TY!
I tried yandex a couple of years ago -- it seems to have gotten better since then.
Kagi.com is another one to consider, seems to find the good stuff.
I have not heard of them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#General
I am trying metager, another meta search engine based in Germany
I have been using startpage
...for years now....
problem with startpage is it's pretty much google, they just , supposedly, get rid of all the tracking
look at this:
DDG StartPage Yandex
DDG is middling, first result bs "fact checking" but the rest is ok-ish
Startpage by far is the worse, ALL propaganda, not a single truthfull article shown
Yandex is by far the best
DDG has been a controlled opposition for a while.
I use yandex these days.
I use Yandex
I think it's been bad for years, personally. I can even put in an actual website address and it still won't come up. It's crap now.
DuckDuckGo is advertising on the side of commercial trucks and are now sponsoring the weather reports on mainstream radio. I'd say yes.
All this, and the worst. Brand name. Ever.
Realistically, I started questioning DDG when Apple added them as an option for default search engines...alongside the usual suspects.
Pull up 5 or 6 search engines.
Search for a controversial term in each one. See what comes up.
Several of the search engines will have pretty much the exact same results, that are all deep state bullshit.
There will be one or more that is different. That's the one to use.
Right now, seems like DDG, Start Page, and Brave are all cucked.
There are others, though.
I left DDG for Qwant.
Qwant tells me, "Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country." That's lame. How is it that it's only meant to work in the USA? I'd like to use it, but I'd need a VPN just to do so. Ridonk.
Qwant is based out of France, so not sure what you mean about how it's only meant to work in the USA.
It's possible your country is blocked due to sanctions or what not? Hard to say without knowing your country.
France? I just assumed it was from the USA. I live in Japan, which seems to get along with most everyone. Beats me.
Did some digging and found this Tweet-
Some of you have reported difficulties using Qwant in several countries around the world. It is a difficult decision but we have decided to close access to our services in certain countries where we don’t believe to provide the expected quality of service. Our apologies for this.
5:04 AM · Dec 16, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/QwantCom/status/1339149434572206080
Apparently, they are blocking countries that don't speak French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Catalan, Corsican, Breton or Basque according to a French website I found. This is a rough translation but doesn't really explain WHY it's blocking them.
https://www.numerama.com/tech/676925-qwant-ferme-lacces-a-son-moteur-de-recherche-dans-certains-pays.html
This could be due to fees they pay MIcrosoft/Bing to provide results to search terms when Qwant can't produce meaningful results from its own databases. The costs paid may not make business sense because they're not harvesting data like Google to compensate for the expenses.
When I tried qwant before it seemed like it didn't work well for English searches. That was probably a year ago though
Well, if Micro$oft say so...
DDG has always been comprimised lmao
Lmao
Fuck Duck. They are a woke leftist org beholden to the left's cash.
DuckDuckGo said no. But when I reapplied as a black lesbian who can’t speak English, they wanted me.
Others to try are Startpage and Gibiru and Brave. Not endorsing any, just saying.
I’ve been using kagi.com for a few weeks and it finds the things I can’t find on DDG or the others. I think it’s still public beta so you have to sign in before you can search which is the only downside I’ve seen so far.
Yes I stopped using DDG a few weeks ago, unbelievably I found Bing was giving very slightly better search results than DDG. My skin was crawling as I made it my preferred and now I feel that Bing has gone tits up as well. For some reason, I couldn't set metacrawler as my pref search engine. Yandex it is then, off to change my settings. Thanks for the intel folks.
Yes, yahoo bought them.
This
They had been advertising on billboards in Vegas back in late 2019 early 2020 and Phoenix in 2020 as well.
I like https://swisscows.com
Note: It censors porn and violence, which is just fine for about 95% of my searches and really helps to clean up the results from my experience.
Just as an example. I just did a search for boobs and copied and pasted the message below-
No results found for "boobs"
Dear user, search results for the query "boobs" may contain violence and pornographie. Since we have decided on the protection of minors, the search for this query is disabled.
Thank you very much for your understanding!
For searches blocked by these filters, I switch over to https://qwant.com or https://yandex.com
Duckduckgo only anonymizes your searches.
It still as always uses Google.
Long time friend. I’m using startpage and/or brave depending on which device I’m on. Edit: just read a reply that those are both compromised now so I’ll be looking into them tonight
https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/on-a-growth-tear-duckduckgo-reveals-it-picked-up-100m-in-secondary-investment-last-year/
"Its blog post name-checks Omers Ventures, Thrive, GP Bullhound, Impact America Fund and WhatsApp founder Brian Acton; inventor of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee; VC and diversity activist Freada Kapor Klein; and entrepreneur Mitch Kapor as being among the participating investors."
Swiss Cows?
I've mentioned it a lot. First time I've seen somebody else mention it.
Learned about it watching a lecture on Internet privacy on Hillsdale College's YouTube channel.
I noticed that too recently.
They took the coin years ago.
Soros has his filthy hands on DDG for years through his Open Society Foundation. He made a couple of donations (don't know if he still does to this day) so yeah... Been compromised for a long time.
if you suspect it is compromised, then it has. use something else.
I’ve moved to Yandex.