POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

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What search engine do you use most?

Qwant
3
7%
Google
11
26%
DuckDuckGo
14
33%
Ecosia
0
No votes
Startpage
11
26%
Other()
4
9%
 
Total votes: 43

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cyrilus31
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Re: POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

#41 Post by cyrilus31 »

Pierre wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 5:31 am the Standard Answer is to "Google it " but, most Users would be Forced to use Bing .. ..
- and they don't even know the difference :(

in recent times, I've had some difficulty in holding the search engine to either DuckDuckGo or StartPage,
as the installed Firefox always defaults back to Bing :(

just wish these folks would move Away from the Dark Side - - to MX, of course.
:)
It's specific to english language. It should be interesting to know how people say "to Google" in other languages. In french it's still "to search" even though people mainly use Google (but Qwant is progressing at a fast pace).
tascoast wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:01 pm I miss the good olden days of finding websites full of caps and coloured fonts, on topics like identifying reptilian overlords masquerading as movie stars and politicians, or perpetual motion and home hardware made easy.

I suspect the internet and search engine results particularly, have become so sanitised and commercialised that the fun police and money-grabbers have essentially won.

Some of my 'Search Engine' bookmarks from way back (not forgetting the Wayback Machine): Lycos, Dogpile, Web Wombat, HotBot, WebCrawler, My Excite ;)
It reminds me of the first time I heard of Google. It was in 1999 I think, in a french scientific magazine and the article was like "Wow, a new era of internet search is coming". I don't think they imagined how right they were.But not necessarily for the best.

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wulf
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Re: POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

#42 Post by wulf »

We live in interesting times...There is a kind of paradox at work right now. For one thing, most would concede that Google probably produces the more comprehensive search results of any engine, but balanced against that, given their open admission regarding tracking, and the rising awareness of covert web censorship occurring across many spheres of interests, it seems that people are prepared to look elsewhere and content themselves with slightly less precise results in favour of perceived freedom from being tracked / tagged / monitored and manipulated. It's tempting to see parallels between it and Internet Explorer in the rise to dominance, and the resulting catastrophic fall that ensued some years down the line...

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oops
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Re: POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

#43 Post by oops »

wulf wrote: Sun Jul 08, 2018 6:43 am We live in interesting times...There is a kind of paradox at work right now. For one thing, most would concede that Google probably produces the more comprehensive search results of any engine, but balanced against ...
Not really a paradox... Humans do not love hegemonic preemptions, and that's probably good news for our civilizations ... I hope so. ;-)
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Re: POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

#44 Post by Kulmbacher »

some other meta engines,

https://www.etools.ch/ (nice to configure)
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://www.boomle.com/
they called him, the fish!

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wulf
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Re: POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

#45 Post by wulf »

oops wrote: Sun Jul 08, 2018 7:00 am
wulf wrote: Sun Jul 08, 2018 6:43 am We live in interesting times...There is a kind of paradox at work right now. For one thing, most would concede that Google probably produces the more comprehensive search results of any engine, but balanced against ...
Not really a paradox... Humans do not love hegemonic preemptions, and that's probably good news for our civilizations ... I hope so. ;-)
Yes, true..That is a good point.

Be OK
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Re: POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

#46 Post by Be OK »

duckduckgo is limited ! for video it only show youtube ! And it has the same nasty habit of ignoring " " just as google.
I use all if i know if want to find something.

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Re: POLL : What is your favo(u)rite search engine

#47 Post by fehlix »

Be OK wrote: Sun Jul 08, 2018 8:22 am duckduckgo is limited ! for video it only show youtube ! And it has the same nasty habit of ignoring " " just as google.
I use all if i know if want to find something.
Quoting spaces might help like this "MX Linux" in the search.
Limit search results for videos in ddg, sp and qwant and others
to show more none site specific results like this example:

Code: Select all

"MX Linux" -site:youtube.com
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