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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Brave Search gives me the best results. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by amnesiac@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Although I hate the Brave browser, the search engine is the most useful of the others. It gives me the most correct results compared to the others, even it sometimes ignores the quality resources.

I wonder your opinion about the search engine. Do you have any negative ones?

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[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I ditched brave for DuckDuckGo, then DuckDuckGo for Ecosia…

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I ditched brave for DuckDuckGo, then DuckDuckGo for Ecosia…

you went back to Bing and Google. Congratulations

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

DDG uses bing and yandex under the hood, no?

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 minutes ago

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

Most of our search result pages feature one or more Instant Answers. To deliver Instant Answers on specific topics, DuckDuckGo leverages many sources, including specialized sources like Sportradar and crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia. We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

I thought DDG used Bing under the hood.