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No such thing as an "unbiased search engine" And that is not a knock on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Qwant, etc It is a fact - every search engine is making some
by warrenm 3y ago
No such thing as an "unbiased search engine"
And that is not a knock on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Qwant, etc
It is a fact - every search engine is making some kind of decision about `"what is" on the web`: they have their own crawling cycles, internal rankings, ability to reach content, etc
I use Qwant most often on my personal MacBooks
Bing on my iPhone and iPad
DDG on my wife's iPhone and iPad
Google at work (because we are defaulted to Chrome with limited ability to change defaults)
Do they all return "the same" results? More-or-less ... ish
You could run something like the meta search engine searX yourself, and give it the list of other search engines to hit and then return results to you (I did for a little while ... but decided it was not yielding better enough results (for me) to keep going vs just hitting the underlying engines
- martinbaun 3y agoThanks, I'll take a look at QWant. Limited ability to change Chromes' settings at work? Sounds fancy :P
- warrenm 3y agoI dunno how "fancy" it is ... but it is what it is :)
- martinbaun 3y agoMaybe I ask what you do, or is it top secret? :P
- warrenm 3y agoI work in enterprise software consulting - nothing "secret" ...but our work laptops are managed devices - not a lot can be changed (that sticks) with some of our defaults :)
- martinbaun 3y agoAh, I guess it is big enterprise :) Java? Cobol? :P
- warrenm 3y agoLol no - it's Splunk :)