technology

I use DDG, but I use the !g (google) bang a lot, either for site: search, or when my query gets complicated enough that DDG will get confused and Google will still actually look for something useful after ignoring half my terms. The bangs are useful in general though; even just !w makes it more useful than Google. (I mean I could set up quick searches in my browser, but nobody has done that since 2008.)

I've been thinking of trying out Kagi, a paid premium search engine. A bunch of people on hackernews say it's good, but what'd really sell me on it is a recommendation from someone who isn't on hackernews.

mostly use ddg. Used to be that it was harder to use full time and I'd have to go look at google for something specific but that happens less and less over time. Idk how much of that is ddg improving or google becoming dog shit but I try to use big tech companies' stuff as little as is feasible

gradually shifting away from google to yandex
yandex search by image is significantly better, and the normal search is less shit in general, even ignoring the extreme bias in google results

ddg since I use !s a lot

I still mostly use google, but i'll fall back to DuckDuckGo when I need to.

i use a searx instance. it sends requests to multiple search engines on your behalf. you can choose which ones. it's free software. you can check https://searx.space for a list. you can also spin up your own if you want :)

I was using Ecosia for a bit but the results weren’t great and I ended up having to use google half the time anyway. I’d like a new one though because google is becoming fucking unusable