It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing
How is Softonic still allowed to advertise it’s literally Malware
Google: 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑💰💰💰💰💰
Just so I understand. I should not be downloading anything from there?
I clicked a link just yesterday, but something felt off so I backed out and went to the MSI page to download afterburner.
No never. Softonic repackages existing programs with a malware bundle.
Why is that even allowed and why are search engines not held accountable.
Like piracy bad, but this is cool I guess.
It’s all free software, so nobody cares because they don’t stand to gain any money from fixing it. #CapitalismRocks
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Wow reading through these comments makes me a little sad. Most people still don’t know jack about search engines or how they differ under the hood, or eve just how to add them into your browser search bar. Looks like all the effort I put into that that simple search engine guide was in vain.
Well that was a spectacular read in your link, keep calling attention to it, 'cause it’s gonna be a constant drip-drip-drip of people finding out. I didn’t know, but starting today, I’m gonna experiment with SearXNG as my primary search engine, see how that goes!
Thanks
Yacy seems to be what I want but I am worried about the content that would get indexed
Thanks for making such an interesting guide! I’ll read through this and hopefully learn more about search engines and what would work the best for me.
Softonic be like every app you want we have it, even the non exist ones. But once you installed our apps you already have made a pact with the devil
Does anyone know exactly what malware they are serving? I’m tempted to run it though virustotal.
It’s not malware it’s more adware. At least it used to be
Borderline?
There’s still DuckDuckGo, or Kagi if you are rich.
Doesnt Duck use bing?
Yes, and DDG has really been degrading over the last few months in quality of results imo.
I noticed this as well. It’s a shame as I still use it as my daily search driver.
I’ll be honest, DDG has never blown me away and I’ve been using it for roughly 5 years. It’s not awful or anything, but maybe once every month or two I need to resort to Google because it can’t find something. I’m absolutely willing to sacrifice some quality for privacy in the general case, though.
Yes, it has never been the best in terms of relevance or depth of index. But lately when I do searches for something like “cherry shrimp aquarium water quality requirements” I’ve been overwhelmed by AI-written SEO blogs. Where google still pulls up results from forums, reddit, other relevant actual humans talking.
Yes.
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what about concepts?
still looks better than the average Google search
It’s gone really downhill ever since co-pilot
It’s hard to call it better than Google now
Is it still good for porn, at least?
Yall use a search engine to search for porn? Like you don’t just open a private tab, go to PornHub and then click something.
furiously searches for that one video from 5 years ago
Y’all use incognito mode?
“Hmm, share on Facebook? Don’t mind if I do!”
Yeah I don’t want certain things autofilling if someone is using my phone.
It’s a meme, Bing was apparently actually good when looking up porn.
Was it or was that guerilla marketing?
Not sure, never tried lol
No :’(
Arbitrarily it will cut off your search and now they just add irrelevant “search for this next” garbage to make it look less barren
Stract.com open search engine a guy built in his basement. It is not perfect but feels like Google used to in the late 90s, when you had real results
Thanks, I’ve never heard of this. I’ve been using Brave Search + DDG + Marginalia
I just use Google with uBlock Origin to get rid of adverts
Need to enshittify it enough to make the AI features feel like an improvement.
it’s Microsoft. You don’t need to edgelord censor yourself.
Yeah, you’re totally allowed to cuss on the internet.
Kagi
Clean up your tabs please. Omg
Nah, I like to suffer.
(I don’t use tabs on mobile so I forget they exist)
Lmao
The “Delete tabs after 1 week” has been great
This is the first time I’ve seen Kagi, I’ll check them out. I’ve been pretty happy with SearxNG.
I really love Kagi, it’s been worth the money for me!
I can block results, re-order result priority, enable or disable any feature I want, and their AI summary feature is actually good and is locked behind a click (Quick Answer) so it doesn’t trigger on every search. Also obviously no ads and no tracking.
Here’s the UBlock filters for a better experience, on this day, 12-9-2024. Sadly, the results are still bing results, and the MS data vacuum is still in effect. (there’s a chance this get’s filtered cause of all the urls, so if there’s nothing below, oh well, woulda been nice, huh.
edit, image now
Also try to use Firefox (or a fork of Firefox) together with uBlock origin.
Can you paste as text?
Isn’t this the same as Google?
SearXNG is also amazing. The only reason I don’t use it more is because it doesn’t have an integration into the URL bar in Firefox.
Can’t you add it manually?
Yes, but you may need to mess with about:config. I just added Jira as a search engine so I can type ticket numbers.
Dude. When you’re looking at whatever search just right click in the url bar and there will be an option to add that search engine. Then in settings you can make it your default if you wish.
The reason I don’t use SearXNG is because the public instances always seem to be slow and or broken.
So, did it never occur to you that you can manually add custom search engine into Firefox?
Settings>search>manage alternate search engines>add search engine
we got woogle which is a frontend for google
It does, look it up in the addon marketplace- been working great for me
I don’t get malware and AI on firefox, but uBlock count’s continually up. I know this behavior only from trash dump sites.