Yandex pretty much solidified itself as the reverse image finder (next to saucenao). But anything else? Its been a toss up. Brave, start up, and quant search results are so fucking garbage. ddg shows the best results, but is pozzed as fuck and yandex is too russian. Lastly they all fail miserabley when it comes to basic image search, and i refuse to use google since they keep fucking pusing webp.
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I use Brave browser and then load up google for the 1:30 times the Brave search engine fails me.
Brave search has the same !bang functionality DDG has. Try it out: "!g Google Sucks" "!deepl Arzneimittelversorgungswirtschaftlichkeitsgesetz" "!saucenao https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFOF6AzvaAAIJX59.jpg%3Fname%3Dorig"
Brave's BAT stuff seems like a smart idea, but jesus getting it out of a browser is a nightmare.
Have to link to their "partners" and submit ID proof to those guys. They ban without reason, and disconnect without notice. Also only 4 systems can ever be connected to your account, so if you reformat, migrate, get a new system.... good luck. And no you can't 'release slots' but they are 'working on it'.
So get some crypto but forget being anonymous if you want to use it.
And Brave's bookmark system is garbage. No support for tags. Search for bookmarks, better be based on the exact name, or the words in the url.
And sadly no real response from them on open issues etc.
They are still the best/only alternative it seems to Corporate Chrome, or WokeFox.
Little salty today because I've spent most of the day trying to get the damn BAT off a system I need to send back, with little luck. Going to have to write off the tokens, because F the KYC shit by opaque unresponsive entities.
Are there any plugins for managing bookmarks? Seems like an area where there are probably good tools, but then again I'm not sure how widely used bookmarks are in general anymore
I don't actually find yandex that bad. Although for anything even remotely political, even bing is better than Google at this point.
Bing is fucking horrible. It automatically "corrects" you search to some unrelated business bullshit.
Google Books is the best thing in Google. Shame they aborted Google News Archive (they were scanning all of the old English language newspapers).
Because the media fogies wanted a cut. They still do, which is why they've bent over and take it up the ass by the Canadian Turdster, who is legislating exactly that. Free cash for all my media ass lickers, from the tax payers, and now from the woke corporates.
My big complaint with Yandex is gives a lot of Russian-language results, even when you have it set to English.
Are you using yandex.com or yandex.ru? Because I've never had that problem on the English-language site.
Yandex.com
Weird
Bing is google but worse
It's all run by the CIA. that's my wild guess. We go on wild goose egg hunts to find something "safe" and it's all compromised. bet.
Same with VPNs.
so true.
I haven't given up google but it is my last resort now.
I use Presearch first which grants a fraction of a shitcoin on the first 30ish searches of the day. (yes that is a referral link, use it and you get bonus shitcoins as well!) It is adequate most of the time, no idea where they get their results from. I've found a lot of my searches are "I don't feel like typing in the full url of a website".
Then Yandex, then Bing, then Google. I found Bing is better than goog for local businesses. Can't completely do away with google because it has the best answer to technical questions so is sort of required to do my job, but I still try the others first.
It was bought by a marketing company, but the guy who created it says it's still anonymous. If you search "techlore startpage" on youtube or odysee you'll find an interview the guy did, and can determine for yourself if you believe him.
It does have some nice features like not including the search terms in the url, and including a proxy link beside the search results.
Ill try that, ty
technical answers to questions like "What is a woman?"
I'm just trolling. I get what you mean.
I found Yandex to be terrible for Japanese search results, whereas with Google or DDG I get good results in both English and Japanese. Yandex also lacks in a few other minor ways, but I'm not going back to Google.
Gibiru is decent.
I've been using Neeva.com for a bit now and I really like it's format and all. It's subscription based, but there's also a free version. They claim to be private and show no ads no matter which service version you're on. Subscription model is $5 a month and it also gets you the premium versions of Bitdefender VPN and Lastpass
I don't think there's a reverse image search and search results by themselves are annoying, but at least they'll allow you to block results and prefer results from news outlets, so at least there's that.
they're always adding features so there's hope that they get better
There's honestly no reason to use a search engine when 90% of the results are sites that already have an index function that you can search or social media pages that have shouldn't even be indexed since you need an account to access them. Trying to find a new article about something that happened 10 years ago? Fuck your mother, you're not going to find shit if anything related to it happened within the last 5 years.
I just use brave for anything news related, then I have 4 gmails assorted into varied “personas” and two phones splitting the accounts. Learn to make the system work for you.
Guaranteed Google knows who all those accounts belong to
Unless you’re always on tor - google would have linked your 4 personas as coming from the same ip address.
Even if you use tor/vpn- they probably harvested enough information from your browser fingerprint.
It’s difficult to avoid google’s surveillance.
The risk is one day their trans diversity hire employees run an AI program that decides you are too right wing for the banking system/credit cards etc
Brave is worse than ddg for anything news related, also every search in brave is almost identical to google, but with less results.
Even non-news related searches will sometimes pop up a leftist news article that's barely related to what you searched.
DDG shows awful results. I don’t know why people every supported this company.
I hate Yandex. I just use brave search or Google if I need reverse image search or translation.
google reverse is absolute garbage. what are you talking about. Translation i'll give you, its still one of the best.
I use Bing; it's evil you can live with.