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Please use Bing or DuckDuckGo. If you are on HN you already know that both of them are orders of magnitude better than Google. It's Google's monopoly and anti-c

Please use Bing or DuckDuckGo. If you are on HN you already know that both of them are orders of magnitude better than Google. It's Google's monopoly and anti-competitiveness deter Bing and DDG from gaining more momentum. We should all use Bing or DDG.

brailsafe 5y ago
It would be nice if it were true, but neither are better. Yes, both perhaps have less pernicious ad tracking and placement, but they just don't feel as effective
- henriquez 5y ago
  DuckDuckGo seems to have equivalent or better results for non coding-related queries Bing has the best results for porn Google still wins for coding stuff though. Other than that it’s a cesspit of irrelevant keyword ads and SEO spam
  - code2life 5y ago
    you.com has the best results for coding-related queries. Today, I searched 'torch a 100' on google and I got results for flashlights. And this is despite Google knowing everything in the world there is to know about me. I tried the search on you.com and the first result was Stackoverflow.
  - richardsocher 5y ago
    Agreed with below: you.com is particularly good for coding stuff, eg https://you.com/search?q=sort+dictionary+by+value+python+descending https://you.com/search?q=sort+dictionary+by+value+python+des...
jedberg 5y ago
I've run experiments multiple times, and Google always returns better results for me. Maybe it's because they know me so well from all the other Google things I use, but it's just... better for me.
Terry_Roll 5y ago
I wonder what %age of bing and DDG traffic comes from Windows OS's. Alot I would imagine, so where MS doesnt have things like google analytics, google fontapis etc to track people's usage online, MS who own Bing and seed DDG, will still get web tracking from the Window OS, because most of the time in Win10 Security, App & Browser control will report back the website, files & apps you may visit or download, and you have the Virus & threat protection settings which can also report back stuff. So at the moment, for search engine supremacy, you have MS & Google going head to head using different methods to track people online. I'm surprised Apple doesnt do their own search engine for their products, its really not that hard to do imo!

brailsafe 5y ago

It would be nice if it were true, but neither are better. Yes, both perhaps have less pernicious ad tracking and placement, but they just don't feel as effective

henriquez 5y ago
DuckDuckGo seems to have equivalent or better results for non coding-related queries Bing has the best results for porn Google still wins for coding stuff though. Other than that it’s a cesspit of irrelevant keyword ads and SEO spam
- code2life 5y ago
  you.com has the best results for coding-related queries. Today, I searched 'torch a 100' on google and I got results for flashlights. And this is despite Google knowing everything in the world there is to know about me. I tried the search on you.com and the first result was Stackoverflow.
- richardsocher 5y ago
  Agreed with below: you.com is particularly good for coding stuff, eg https://you.com/search?q=sort+dictionary+by+value+python+descending https://you.com/search?q=sort+dictionary+by+value+python+des...

jedberg 5y ago

I've run experiments multiple times, and Google always returns better results for me. Maybe it's because they know me so well from all the other Google things I use, but it's just... better for me.

Terry_Roll 5y ago

I wonder what %age of bing and DDG traffic comes from Windows OS's. Alot I would imagine, so where MS doesnt have things like google analytics, google fontapis etc to track people's usage online, MS who own Bing and seed DDG, will still get web tracking from the Window OS, because most of the time in Win10 Security, App & Browser control will report back the website, files & apps you may visit or download, and you have the Virus & threat protection settings which can also report back stuff. So at the moment, for search engine supremacy, you have MS & Google going head to head using different methods to track people online. I'm surprised Apple doesnt do their own search engine for their products, its really not that hard to do imo!