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Ah yes, searching for anything in 2021 looks like: <search terms> -amazon -ebay -pinterest etc

• xattt 5y ago
  This would be a great addition to the default search string in your browser of choice for your search engine of choice.
• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  I just use DDG.
  • dredmorbius 5y ago
    As a long-time default-DDG user: DDG doesn't make defining a list of default-excluded sites any easier. I do run many DDG sites via a bash function (see below). I suppose I could append a list of sites to exclude from results to that, though it would be somewhat ugly. That won't fix searches from a GUI browser though (unless I were to proxy those though some mechanism ... hrm...). The bash function (any other browser could be substituted, I happen to like w3m): ddg () { /usr/bin/w3m "https://duckduckgo.com/lite?q=$*&kd=-1" }
  • 93po 5y ago
    i extremely reluctantly removed DDG as my default search yesterday. it's been my default for more than a year but the results were so, so consistently worthless even for basic things.
  • quitit 5y ago
    I use DDG and although I still have this issue, your comment got me wondering what it was like on goog. … holy fucking shit.
    • stjohnswarts 5y ago
      what did you search for? I searched for a few thing like kittens, ducks, and cookies which I figured would have a big contribution from pinterest and I didn't see any at all? On google search of course
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  There's Million Short: https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/
• time0ut 5y ago
  Many of my searches these days are just <search terms> reddit. This is especially true when trying to find reviews or recommendations for products I want to buy. I know a lot of companies are gaming things on Reddit, but at least its not 100% like in the results of a general web search. I feel like Reddit is sitting on a literal gold mine here...