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posted by martyb on Saturday March 02 2024, @12:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.

How do you find information online?

There are Lists of search engines.

But, which one(s) do you use and why?

Do you use just one search engine? Do you have one primary search engine and another one that you use only when your primary fails? May you use multiple engines depending on whether your search is on your desktop, mobile, or TV?

How do YOU choose?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 02 2024, @03:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 02 2024, @03:16AM (#1347042)
    Google as default. Yandex for when Google fails (for web/image) or for some image searches. Google image search has improved recently though - it used to be OK then became bad (maybe due to copyright/censorship issues?) and now has improved.

    For my searches Google search has become worse over time, but DDG and Bing have not caught up. I guess Microsoft's AI goal with Bing is to gaslight people into preferring the AI's results whatever they were originally searching for. That said it's hard to figure out whether it's incompetence and/or malice given Microsoft's abysmal track record with search (Windows, Teams, Outlook, Bing etc).