• MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
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        Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It’s just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

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          8 hours ago

          Duckduckgo also has bangs, which I consider an essential feature.

          Although I use SearXNG instead, since their equivalent is a lot more customisable (although less bangs out of the box).

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            12 minutes ago

            Are there any that have a top knot or fauxhawk though? Asking for a friend.

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          8 hours ago

          I don’t think that’s true. They are using the index of bing, but the search results are not. At least that’s what I heard, no idea if it’s factual or not.

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        8 hours ago

        Honestly nothing is good anymore. Every search engine brings up the same SEO optimized dogshit articles. I sometimes use Arc browser but that’s not really that different than asking ChatGPT.

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          Yeah. Really sucks how you need to know what you’re looking for in order to get any use out of a search engine these days.

          For example, if you want to find a “free online video chatroom”, you’re not going to find it by typing those words into google. You need to know, specifically, that there is a free chatroom called https://stumblechat.com/ and type that into google in order to see it.

          The world is fucked.

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          It’s so obnoxious. I hate researching a topic only to be fed results leading to useless AI spam. The entire thing is clogged up like this. Searching on the internet absolutely sucks, now.