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I use “alternative search engines” daily. However, I have to crawl back to Google if I want to find things that were published in the last two weeks. Even Micro
by d2wa 8y ago
I use “alternative search engines” daily. However, I have to crawl back to Google if I want to find things that were published in the last two weeks. Even Microsoft Bing can’t keep up with all the content that appears on the web every day.
- erinnh 8y agoIf its just search engines, you dont exactly have to be logged in to use Google. Also, there are Google search-proxies like startpage.com
- d2wa 8y agoStartpage and the like don’t get everything you find on Google. E.g. you can find today’s articles from even the most obscure blogs on Google. Searching for the same article won’t return that result on Startpage until at least a few weeks from now. I’m not sure if this is Google holding back on the good stuff, or if it’s Startpage not being willing to pay a higher fee.
- stephengillie 8y agohttp://duckduckgoose.com/ http://duckduckgoose.com/
- known 8y agosite:news.ycombinator.com About 91,000 results (0.38 seconds) site:news.ycombinator.com in google.com About 11,90,000 results (0.25 seconds)
- clear_dg 8y agoAnd how many of the initial results in google will be filtered out (e.g takedown notices) when you hit the very last page? I'm doubtful about the usefulness of the results count in comparisons like this.
- wjkohnen 8y agoHTTP-only? Nope, nope, nope.
- olliej 8y agoRight? I tried so hard to use duck duck go and bing, but at some point DDG seemed to start producing very bing-like results, and bing is just not as good as google for technical searches - apparently by design, they believe their results are better for general users. Kind of frustrating :-/
- d2wa 8y agoDDG is powered by Bing and Yandex. DDG doesn't have their own index.