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recommended search engine? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by 8bitretro@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen a lot of discourse over which browsers we use and I myself have made the switch from brave to firefox. I still use brave as my search engine though, so... which do yall recommend? Is brave's engine necessarily bad to use? I personally like its ui/theme.

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[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I personally use Ecosia, it's got a pretty decent privacy policy (esp compared to google/microsoft) and it uses Bing's index so the results are pretty good. The main selling point is they use 100% of their profits for planting trees. The quality of the results is 99% of the time fine but if I ever get something I can't find (or if I'm doing an image search) you can just add #g to your search to search google.

It's overall a pretty good search engine by itself, but the fact it plants trees pushes it leagues ahead of the others for me

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Do you run an adblocker?

edit: because if you do, then your searches don't contribute towards the tree planting

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No I block trackers but I do still get ads on Ecosia

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ever click on them?

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep! (If it's relevant to my search)

They don't get ad money otherwise (I assume that's what you were getting at right?)

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 1 points 11 months ago

I was, yeah