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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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If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ShovelOperator1 on Saturday March 02 2024, @10:03AM
Google for general, however as GMaps fail on non-Chrome more and more I go with OSM for maps. I slowly drift away from Google to Searx as they are quite more sane showing pages, not ads.
OSM is very good in cities which are mapped quite quickly (I also add some info), very, very good at a wilderness, where lots of (motor)bike trails and footpaths are shown, but awful and terribly incomplete between.
For images, Bing was my go-to engine, but recently they got worse. Still looking for some.
For resources, it's Yandex. Lots of things censored in Google still shows up in Yandex.
For BT hashes, it's BTDig as there's no alternative which does not nag for registration.
For small personal websites and problem solving it's Wiby - I don't know who made it and on which license, but it's quite good for these small website searches, showing results that are unobtainable in other search engines because these results aren't products which can be advertised.