• LWD@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Care to share what kind of stuff you look for? Usually, when I look for niche media or code stuff, either I find it effectively enough on DuckDuckGo, or it’s not on Google at all, full stop.

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      9 months ago

      I swear I’m going to capture screenshots of 2-3 dozen searches across DDG & Google, as well as hopefully Bing, Startpage… SearXNG…

      b/c DDG is doodoo while corporate overlord Google is great with Ublock Origin.

      Faithfully perform every search on DDG first in the hopes I can keep the data out of Google’s hands! But !g out half the time.

      Anybody know of a site, app, or TamperMonkey script that’ll search multiple search engines side-by-side?

      In the meantime, one example w/a direct quote from deep inside a Harry Potter book:

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        9 months ago

        Genuinely, thank you for going through the trouble. I know it’s a huge ask, especially because it’s not easy to retroactively remember a specific type of search you were struggling with on one engine versus the other.

        *Insert joke about how Google is the woke search engine here*

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Not entirely true, they have their own index they use to augment/modify the results with. Like the paper linked in this very post shows, actually.