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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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Does she think we just want to sit around painting debian swirls on our
toenails?
-- Erinn Clark, referring to the Debian-women project
(Score: 2) by corey on Monday March 04 2024, @09:02PM
I was supposed to reply to this yesterday but I forgot and left the tab open. I guess the wave of eyeballs is now gone and none will read this. 🙂
Anyway, I have been using Ecosia, who claim to plant trees using ad revenue. This is a plus for me, which outweighs the badness of ads. Works well on my phone and desktops. But the results are not as good as others, but usable for most daily use. I will use Google for things I can’t get good results for.
I’ve also been retrying Qwant, which is a French privacy focussed SE. They are very good from that aspect and are transparent about their mission and company. However I find often their search actually breaks on the mobile interface and it says no results and that I said try reloading. But that doesn’t work either. I might write to them about it because I like them. The other negative for me is that it’s slightly slower than others including DDG. But I will keep using them on the desktop.
A feature I like about the big guys like Google and DDG is conversions just work eg. “1 usd to AUD”. Or “1 mm to mil“.