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Personally, the nagging "I wonder if Google results would be better" is enough of a reason for me to not use Bing/DDG/etc. A search engine is a tool and it is h
by seoaeu 5y ago
Personally, the nagging "I wonder if Google results would be better" is enough of a reason for me to not use Bing/DDG/etc. A search engine is a tool and it is hard to be productive when you can't trust your tools.
- 3np 5y agoI run an instance of searx[0] for me and friends. It is very easy to set up and will aggregate results across DDG/Google/Bing/plenty of others if you wish. Strips tracking parts of links and can trivially do other rewriting you may want. Easy to add filter lists to remove blogspam domains, pinterest et al. Bonus; you won't leak your actual client IP to any of them. Comes with morty[1], which is a decent "anonymizing" HTTP proxy. Supposed privacy wins completely aside, it's the best search user experience I've had in many years. You do run the risk of getting CAPTCHA'd but so far I've had 0 of that with the above-mentioned. [0]: https://github.com/searx/searx https://github.com/searx/searx [1]: https://github.com/asciimoo/morty https://github.com/asciimoo/morty
- npteljes 5y agoChange is hard, one has to appreciate that. Productivity is not everything. I did my share of changes over a long time, and bit by bit, and this helped me to separate my resistance to change, and the actual pros and cons of the systems.