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Ill jump on the top post for now, and recommend everyone to use Yandex Search. Yes that is right. Not duckduckgo, because that one is anyway using Google in its
by antocv 10y ago
Ill jump on the top post for now, and recommend everyone to use Yandex Search. Yes that is right. Not duckduckgo, because that one is anyway using Google in its backend.
Yandex is surprisingly good, take some time to try it out, whenever you think "oh shit results" and want to switch back to Google search, remind yourself how often you automatically rephrase your search when you dont find anything on Google either. Rephrase search, try again, you will find better results than what you had with Google.
There is less spam/ads, and you will discover whole new websites, and network of websites, some even foreign sites but in English.
It feels like using Google from 2004.
www.yandex.com and no Im not payed by them.
- maxerickson 10y agoI don't think DuckDuckGo is using Google. https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.
- antocv 10y agoOh that is nice, was not the case last time I checked duck. Still, duckduckgo is an US company, better stay away from those given the history of last decade.
- laurent123456 10y agoSo better go with Yandex, the Russian company?
- kuschku 10y agoYes, if there’s multiple international companies competing, that’s better than one (even if it might be morally good) company having a monopoly.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoPotentially, unless you happen to be in Russia... clearly if you live in say, Belgium (or Singapore, or New Zealand, etc.), it's unlikely that any Russian agency that has access to your searches will share that data outside their borders. Of course it's generally your service provider that you have to worry about.
- maxerickson 10y agoAs I understand it, they've never used Google's index.
- awqrre 10y ago> It feels like using Google from 2004. Did they bring back the + operator? I still miss it even if you can use quotes instead...