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search engine of choice
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Google 44 33.33%
Bing 22 16.67%
DDG 42 31.82%
Dogpile 7 5.30%
Yahoo 3 2.27%
Baidu 百度 14 10.61%
Total: 132 votes
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buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord

https://duckduckgo.com/
for the uninitiated, its a search engine that prioritizes privacy and stuff since every big company collects data now. I've been trying it for a few weeks, but I cant help but go back to google when I need to search something specific or time sensitive. For everything else it seems okay? Biggest pet peeve is that search results aren't dated; its a chore randomly clicking results and hoping its recent stuff.

is it worth it? I know the intellectual masterminds of gbs can offer their in depth analyses on search engines. :monocle:

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Over There
Jun 28, 2013

by Azathoth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XOa5XXCliU

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Neukoln19
Oct 27, 2005
Oh wow

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord
poll is posted now please stop tarnishing my thread

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

"Trust us guys we're the ONLY ones not collecting your data"
-some dudes on the internet, a place known for honesty and integrity

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same
I have also been using duckduck for the same reason, and what I've found is that I've taken for granted Google's ability to pull up local business number and addresses with little search effort.

crabcakes dogg
Aug 8, 2017

by Fluffdaddy
Yeah I've been using DDG as my main search engine for years. It's good.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

i switched to ddg after google started giving me lovely search results

Fire Barrel
Mar 28, 2010
Results aren't always great, but I like DuckDuckGo well enough. I also use it as my default now.

Beefeater
May 17, 2003

I'm hungry.
Hair Elf
I switched to DDG recently as well. It's alright. My only gripes are the same ones already posted: no dates on articles and isn't as good at immediately pulling up business addresses and such.

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





I've been using DDG for almost a year and most of the time the results are better than Google. There are a few cases for really specific stuff I'll need to go back to Google or Bing, but generally, DDG does a much better job.

Weaponized Autism
Mar 26, 2006

All aboard the Gravy train!
Hair Elf
i only use altavista

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

Which search engines gives the best inflation fetish stuff. I mean like the real gourmet stuff. Exclusive.

The real mccoy of fetish inflation stuff

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
problem with ddg is that it's a piece of poo poo

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
I ask Jeeves, my cat

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Noblesse Obliged posted:

Which search engines gives the best inflation fetish stuff. I mean like the real gourmet stuff. Exclusive.

The real mccoy of fetish inflation stuff

Bing.

Matryoshka SexDoll
Feb 24, 2016

Bad Habit

Bing has shown some very bizarre inflation porn results on some pretty innocent search terms for me. Good looking out, Microsoft.

Metal Cat
Dec 25, 2017
DuckDuckGo is good, but if you're gonna use it you might as well go the full mile and use stuff like NoScript, Tor, a Linux distro, etc. I'm lazy and I'm sure my data has already been collected for years, and I don't use Facebook, so at this point I don't even bother.

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005

BING!

Trauma Dog 3000
Aug 30, 2017

by SA Support Robot

Noblesse Obliged posted:

Which search engines gives the best inflation fetish stuff. I mean like the real gourmet stuff. Exclusive.

The real mccoy of fetish inflation stuff

bing video search is great for porn

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
The chrome on my gfs computer defaults to Yahoo and it's sad how bad it sucks. My biggest complaint with duckduckgo is the name.
I don't want animals in my urls, or monkey children repeated words

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Can't use it as a verb ? Probably can't use it as a search engine.

I'll Google your dad, ok
I'll bing your mom, maybe
I won't yahoo anything though

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
"DuckDuckGo to the pond" - Alternate Hillary

Ponies Ist Krieg
Dec 10, 2017

voted goku

curlys gold
Jan 17, 2018

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

who is the duck in the OP? I'd like to know more

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

smells like cum in here

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

i love the concept of ddg, i want to use it, but google gives me better results

it could be that i just know how to work google better

idk

Duck and Cover
Apr 6, 2007

For some reason this thread called to me.

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


Doesnt ddg have a thing to give you the google results just anonymized or something

euler
Oct 14, 2008

You can use "bangs" to search other engines somewhat anonymously with DuckDuckGo. https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=

If you add !g to your terms it will redirect your search to google. !yt will search youtube. !b will search bing. There are thousands of bangs. There are bangs for a lot of video game wikis, for example.

If you're logged into the search engine you bang it won't be anonymous or unfiltered

I've used DDG exclusively for a few years because of that feature, even though most of my searches start with !g

euler fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Feb 11, 2018

Mandator
Aug 28, 2007

o waaaaaaaat

hmm

Scrotum Modem
Sep 12, 2014

unpacked robinhood posted:

The chrome on my gfs computer defaults to Yahoo and it's sad how bad it sucks. My biggest complaint with duckduckgo is the name.
I don't want animals in my urls, or monkey children repeated words

sounds like your gf installed some lovely yahoo toolbar spyware bundle or something. the last thing you'd see in chrome is it defaulting to something other than their own money-making search engine

Genderfluent
Jul 15, 2015

Just use google come on man

open container
Sep 16, 2008

Satan posted:

Just use google come on man

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Google is just a really fancy malware company.

Cyril Sneer
Aug 8, 2004

Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.
Bing's really good for porn right?

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

unpacked robinhood posted:

Can't use it as a verb ? Probably can't use it as a search engine.

I'll Google your dad, ok
I'll bing your mom, maybe
I won't yahoo anything though


My mom googles for yahoo

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

I'm super duper worried that Google knows about everything I spill my sperms over

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Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

crabcakes dogg posted:

Yeah I've been using DDG as my main search engine for years. It's good.

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