I live in a country which uses a language I don’t speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).

  • @sapo@beehaw.org
    8•2 years ago

    Nothing compares to DuckDuckGo with bangs, which let you change over to any other search engine with two or three characters. I usually use !g (Google), !w (Wikipedia) and !aw (ArchWiki).

  • @Nymphioxetine@beehaw.org
    8•2 years ago

    Bing, actually. I think it has greatly improved. Mostly. Plus the new Bing and AI stuff has been great. Much better than google

    • TheSaneWriter
      8•2 years ago

      I also use Bing. I like the AI features and the rewards program. The results are meh in terms of quality, but at this point honestly so are Google’s.

    • nii236
      5•2 years ago

      Wow, are we going to see the downfall of Google in our lifetimes?!

    • @Pekka@feddit.nl
      1•2 years ago

      The AI part really is what makes Bing great. I noticed that I save so much time by asking programming related question to Bing chat instead of going through a bunch of semi related results. And normal search results are also often fine.

  • @LucidDaemon@lemmy.world
    6•2 years ago

    I use Qwant and find it gives me better results than Google most of the time. It claims to be private and such, so I’m happy with it.

    • @EmasXP@beehaw.org
      2•2 years ago

      Thank you for reminding me about Qwant! I will set it as my default to try it out again. I remember that I did not find it too impressive a few years back. Felt like the exact same results as Bing, even though it supposedly has its own index.

    • @Vorticity@beehaw.org
      1•2 years ago

      I’ve been trying to switch to duckduckgo but I really struggle with the results. I appreciate the privacy angle but I just can’t seem to find what I want about 80% of the time. It’s like it just ignores parts of my query…

    • @amortized_cost@beehaw.org
      1•2 years ago

      DuckDuckGo 99% of the time, Google Startpage if I’m having trouble finding something.

      *Note: Startpage uses Google as their source of search result.

  • Gilberto
    5•2 years ago

    DuckDuckGo, if that doesn’t work then I go to Startpage.

  • @Bretzel@lemmy.world
    4•2 years ago

    I use Startpage, a privacy focused search engine which uses Google powerful search engine but without sending the actual data to them. The result are pretty good. You can change both the language and region in the settings. Bad part of Startpage is it is a for profit company (some advertising will be displayed using past search history only)

  • Thomrade
    4•2 years ago

    I use DDG pretty exclusively. I’ve never had issues with it, I set it as default and didn’t think about it after that

  • thatonedude1210
    3•2 years ago

    Big fan of DuckDuckGo and Startpage. Brave Search is also a fine choice, as well.

    • @starship_lizard@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      I use duckduckgo with Google as a backup for when what I’m searching for is too specific. I’ve had to use Google less and less lately though

    • Peetabix
      2•2 years ago

      Been using Duck Duck Go too for a while. Not heard of Startpage before.

    • MrSangrief
      1•2 years ago

      Used Duckduckgo for a while, got myself into a spiral of search engine exploration and at some point settled on Startpage for a while…but I just missed the maturity in functionality of Duckduckgo. It just always felt like I was making a usability/productivity sacrifice. So I returned and am still happy … for now :p

  • @jmp242@sopuli.xyz
    3•2 years ago

    I’m using Startpage.com (can set the location - I also have the problem that I use a VPN and keep getting not the language I want. IDK how to make it stick though), and Kagi paid for a bit now.