Comment by mrweasel

Comment by mrweasel 4 hours ago

The fact that Google seemingly returns results worse than Kagi, Startpage and Ecosia is just strange, given that Google provides search results for all three of them. Both Kagi and Ecosia uses other sources as well, I don't know about Startpage, so that's certainly part of it, but it still feels a little strange.

From using Ecosia, DuckDuckGo and Bing, I'd also argue that Bing is simply a better search engine at this point.

TurboSkyline 4 hours ago

Don’t Ecosia/Qwant have their own index now?

Do you find Bing better through Bing proper, or just as good through DDG (which uses the Bing index)?

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mrweasel 4 hours ago

Last I read the Ecosia/Qwant index is only used in German and French, so I think Ecosia is still running their weird Bing/Google/Other mix.
Bing felt about as good as Ecosia, until Ecosia started to mix in the Google results. At that point Ecosia became they better search engine. Bing vs. DDG, I'd say about the same. I stopped trying to use Bing once they rolled out all the Copilot nonsense. Now the UI is unusable and cluttered.

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