Have you used a Google competitor search engine? Was it any good?

I used bing search engine built-in into Edge browser for a while. And I made some searches on bing and google to compare the results. And while it's frustrating in both engines, that sponsored searches are prioritized more, Google has cleaner mark of sponsored content. For example, I was searching for Winter solstice 2024, and Google showed me Wiki page as a first option, while Bing showed me ad for Amazon as a first option, and only after that it was information about my actual request.

I use Sam's SearXNG!

Oh yes, I know, you've never heard of it. SearXNG is free and open-source, which means that anyone can go check its source code and make sure it only does what it says it does. Users aren't profiled or tracked at all, and you can use the same sorts of filters and syntax searchers as you would everywhere else.

In terms of results, they are sometimes... a little interesting, but I've never been, you know, unable to find what I'm looking for. And I value my online privacy very much, so it helps!

I've moved my main browser search engine over to Duck Duck Go years ago, although I have to admit that recently I've been using Large Language Models and Google Gemini on my phone, there's something truly liberating being able to hold a life like conversation with my phone using it to pick out information.

I use edge because it saves storage and makes the computer less heavy. as a person who works in the field of design that requires a lot of references, so many tabs are opened to see many references. plus it helps me in flexibility and efficiency. the tab sleeping feature also helps suspend inactive tabs for better performance.👌👌👌

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