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What search engines do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4448974

I've recently started using a self hosted SearXNG instance but I'm still using the search engines enabled by default (google, duckduckgo and qwant). What search engines do you have enabled or which ones do you feel you've gotten the best results with?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less "sponsored" results, ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

DDG doesn't like to exclude words from your searches though. It lets you exclude sites using the -site: parameter, but won't exclude individual words. And it constantly gives me search results that don't include the words that I'm searching for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried using exclusive terms with quotation marks? Like "how to get rich fast" That should only feature sites with exactly that search term. Additionally you could link words with + between them i think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have tried, and it really doesn't work that well. Often I'm looking for a specific word, and if I search the page that DDG gave me, the word doesn't appear at all. Either it finds words it thinks are close enough, or it just ignores the request.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Vor the site you have visited and has some hidden SEO spam related to its topic.