I found Degoog to be easier to deploy for my non-technical skills. A docker container and I was done.

Tech bros maybe? Or people that work at Alphabet/Google?

WTF is this order?

Not the old logo... </3

I got a stroke from this. Thanks.

Ecosia and Qwant is where it's at - they are creating an independent search index to be able to ditch Bing and Google. And Ecosia is trying to save the planet and have so far planted more than 250 million trees - just an added benefit.

It's extra funny because DDG is (mostly) Bing.

Ddg results are so good. I dont get the hate on them. I try to go back to Google and the results are unusable.

It's Google ten years ago, which was already shit. They need to go further back on the timeline.

Really? For some reason, I really prefer DDG's results over Google's. Too much SEO spam for Google now (especially with AI).

DDG has this Reddit+ stack overflow thing that I quite like!

For generic factual stuff, I default to wikipedia. For opinions, it tends to be Reddit/Lemmy. If I have questions that are more of "tell me why my understanding of XYZ is wrong", then LLMs (the big ones) tend to be quite useful (yeah yeah, hate on me for this as much as you want).

Sadly, this is my experience too

Starpage, Qwant, and Brave search are all out there, just waiting for you.

Duck duck go is made a LOT better if you specify a date range before SEO became as stupid as it did. AIslop just made the seo bullshit articles/pages go from bad to fubar.

I caved and switched when Google started giving me a full large chat window (not even just a small AI overview) by default when I ran a search.

Yeah I didn’t like DDG either. Kagi is worth the price to have a better google-free experience,

And they show ads too.

Just try ducai

Brave search over ddg

Almost too good, I find.

I tend to have safe search off, because I'm a grown up. But it can be kind of annoying to search for a completely innocuous term, only for the image results to somehow be rammed full of people getting rammed full.

and DDG by proxy

Can a scientist plz confirm?

Ecosia is not that great for privacy "Your IP address and search terms are automatically shared with our search partners, Microsoft Bing or Google, when you search." https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

The most accurate kind of accuracy.

Last time i checked it was powered by bing also ?

Don't beat yourself up too much, there were a few years when they were doing really good things.

I too for a period of time was a fan of google. Then, I became wise to what they were doing. How they didnt align with my beliefs obtained and evolved from a mix or experience and external eourcesci learned from.

Yes there was a time Google did some good in the world of tech. Was. That time has passed us unfortunately.

When they started back in 1830, they were great. A search-engine that gave results. With no nonsense. Then they ditched "don't be evil", became evil and do their best to destroy the net and privacy....

From fanboy to hateboy. Very sad.

Same here. I had every Google service. Even used Google+.

I just started using Startpage this week. What about it pisses you off? I ask because I've been trying to degoogle my android as best as I can and am always open to suggestions

Once you go quack, you never go back.