Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.

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[–] 19 points 9 months ago (10 children)

AFAIK there are only like 4 search engines in the world:

  1. Google
  2. Bing
  3. Yahoo
  4. Yandex

Virtually every search site uses one or a combination of these.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo "alliance thing" (can't remember what it's officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).

    Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is...yeah.

    Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they're all the same except with those two you're not going to get the AI slop or ads.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I hate the bing-yahoo search engine. On DDG, searching for news is absolute garbage.

    Ask it to check latest news like "Donald Trump really make AI videos of Obama as Gorilla" and the News Search found 1 news article and 20 posts from a five years ago. But on Google News, it's like 50 articles.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    There's a UK search engine called Mojeek that has its own index. I won't claim it's results are as good as Google/Bing/Kagi etc but if you want to use an alternative it exists. I typically start all my searches there and then transition to DDG if I can't find what I'm looking for.

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