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What search engine do you use? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago by firelizzard@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 61 points 6 months ago (3 children)

DuckDuckGo

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used to have to put !g (redirect to Google) on like half my searches to get the results I wanted. These days, I actually generally prefer DDG's results over Google's.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I use DDG too. When I redirect to google using !g it's usually out of desperation and it gives me the same bad results in a slightly different order.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

I use this on my phone. It's gotten pretty great!