Google is way to compliant to DMCA request resulting in bad result. Bing doesnt seems to care and will happily link to live and replay of sport event (the main reason I use it personnaly) even as a first result.
PS : If you’re french dont forget to change your DNS or any quality site will not load
So far the only comments have been ‘everyone knows this already’, but I did not, so thank you for posting it
After seeing this comic for the first time years ago I always try to keep it in mind when someone tells me they are just learning about something. We all learn similar things for the first time only at different parts of our lives and being able to be a part of helping someone learn something new is a great feeling.
I got to show my niece and nephew the diet coke and mentos thing. It has become a core memory for the 3 of us and was one of my top 10 funnest days of my life. Sharing knowledge is fun.
Just because something is old knowledge doesn’t mean it’s common knowledge!
People get so weird about that. Yeah I knew, but before I knew, I didn’t.
because they are focused on themselves. They don’t want to see on a public forum an information they already know, not thinking that this information may be useful to others. It’s the Me Me Me attitude.
Knowing about something before others (and bragging about it) gives people a feeling of self-satisfaction.
didnt know this either
Same here, this is first time I know…
Right! I didn’t know about it. It makes me wonder about which other things I don’t know because people don’t share it thinking it’s common knowledge.
Or you can use duckduckgo that uses bings search index while protecting your privacy
I’ve been using DDG exclusively for years now and every now and then I feel it doesn’t give me what I seek and I try Google and it doesn’t find shit either.
People always say that Google results are still superior but I believe that’s only the case as long as you’re in the bubble they create based on your profile and you’re looking for your interests and like-minded opinions.
Google search was amazing for a while in the mid 2010s but they’re losing the SEO arms race now
Aren’t all search engines kinda shit compared to 10 years ago?
I think it’s because malicious actors have gotten more sophisticated at influencing the search results and also Google stopped giving a shit. If there’s something out there that can give me 2010 Google level results, hook me up.
But I have been feeling like search engines are going extinct for a while. When the majority of content on the internet was real, search engines were useful. Now that the majority of content is fake and/or monetized, it becomes increasingly difficult for search engines to return helpful results. No matter how well optimized the algorithm, it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack.
I think people say Google results are superior due to inertia. Google was really good at some point, many years ago. These days it’s laughably bad.
I found that Google is head and shoulders above DDG when it comes for my work searches. Technical stuff - like code errors, Oracle syntax, technical references, etc. I used DDG for a couple of months and had to switch back to Google because I literally wasn’t finding the results that I knew existed.
Waaaat?! That’s the first time I ever heard that. Usually people (including me) have the exact opposite experience. It’s insanely good for technical stuff.
And it’s far less cluttered. I use it because it gives me the same or better results than Google and it’s UI is waaay cleaner and reflects my dark style preference without having to reload it even once.
DuckDuckGo has been harming people’s privacy for years now. Ironically in part because it allows Microsoft’s ad network through due to their partnership. Luckily there are many other alternatives out there.
Luckily there are many other alternatives out there.
Sharing is caring friend; offer some names so that we may benefit from your research.
Apologies, here’s some. Also plenty listed on https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/
Startpage
SearX
Ecosia
Qwant sends data to Bing ads, and didn’t tell its users about it for five years.
Yandex is a Russian company with strong government links that I wouldn’t trust in any way.
Didn’t realize. Removing those.
Ecosia, I’ve been using it a while now and they plant trees with there profit, I have personally covered the cost of planting 75 trees over the last couple years just be using it instead of Google. They have planted over 175mil trees and they are transparent with there finances.
I’m curious about this… I’m having a hard time finding good info on this…
Linked some below
That comment doesn’t even talk about it It only mentions a bunch of alternatives without anything else.
/edit: I guess you thought they meant alternatives. Pretty sure they meant the privacy issue you claimed as fact.
At least that’s what I was interested in.
Yandex is the best when it comes to pirate searches, hands down
All pray for the soul of RARGB, all praise the all mighty RUTOR.
It’s been a bit since the death of RARBG. What is the next best site?
I usually use rutor.info, x1337.to, and torrentgalaxy.to for movie’s.
I we r talking about books, I’m still using z-library because it has almost any book I can ever need to serch, its slower since now is an onion site, an its a plain http transfer, but as I said before, I can find almost any book in there.
Google is just better at censorship.
I use searx because it aggregates over multiple search engines. You can find searx nodes here: https://searx.space/
You should try out LibreX. Built in torrent search engine. Works similarly to SearX.
what’s the domain, I can’t find it
I’m not OP but I was curious and went looking.
I think this is it: https://librex.devol.it/
Yes, but here is a link to all public instances: https://github.com/hnhx/librex/
Seconded, I also use this and have it integrated into Firefox as my default search. I also use Mulad for DoH protection
Unpopular opinion: chocolate tastes good
Woah, friend. This is unpopular opinion, not crazy opinion. You need to calibrate or leave. Friend.
Pro tip: if you do insist on using Google scroll to the bottom until you see a notice like the one below.
You can then click on the complaint to see the URLs that were removed.
They’ve wisened up a bit and now require a (throwaway) email to access the links, but chances are that if you’re looking for something more obscure, the link you seek is still there.
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Pretty sure it’s intentional.
Have never tough about it, thanks !
That’s not an unpopular opinion. It’s a known fact for years.
Neutral opinion: any opinion can be popular or unpopular if posed to the right (or wrong) audience
Clearly, I shouln’t have posted this as an “Unpopular opinion” but rather as a PSA or general advice, my bad. Just something i thought as something people should know. Also I’m sure there is better search engine out there so please share away !
SearX go brrr There’s even a tab for ′files′ which is all just torrents
Wouldn’t the apps you use track anyway? For example would it be pointless to use searX on an app like chrome, firefox or duck?
I believe the idea is that searx strips out tracking/data from the queries sent and recieved from engines.
There’s some info here
As for the browser tracking you, yes. It doesn’t matter what search engine you use on a browser like Chrome it can still track you.
There an app for android or are the tabs for PC?
Google nowadays works if you wanna search something from the Wikipedia or like the same 20 websites. For anything else, good luck going through all the SEO autogenerated garbage.
I can highly recommend Brave search, they have their own index and don’t “comply” with the DMCA because it’s not actually required for a search engine but sadly also not forbidden. I love it every time piratebay.org shows up when it obviously should and not some scummy fake sites!
I second the recommendation. I know a lot of people don’t like the browser (although I find that a lot of that dislike comes somewhat misleading rumors or stories) but the search engine really doesn’t have anything to do with the browser except that it’s by the same company. I often switch between it and Duck Duck Go, and I don’t use Brave browser.
Just my 2c on the browser, I tend to prefer setups that I do or make as part of a guide so that I feel more in control and more aware of what’s running on my PC, so I much prefer taking the time to install LibreWolf and then add a dozen extensions to it.
However, Brave is still a browser I recommend to the casual who wants more privacy for how convenient it is. And I do daily drive it on iOS too for the built in adblocking, which (to my knowledge) can’t be done on the iOS build of Firefox.
Same, I am a life long Firefox user and switch between the two, in most cases the results can keep up with DDG or beat it but sometimes (especially for regional stuff) it dose struggle and DDG dose a better job, that’s usually not piracy related tho.
Same, I am a life long Firefox user and switch between the two, in most cases the results can keep up with DDG or beat it but sometimes (especially for regional stuff) it dose struggle and DDG dose a better job, that’s usually not piracy related tho.
Why would you use Bing over DDG? Honest question
DDG also partly buys results from Bing, so more good results with none privacy abuse. I only switch back to google when searching for images, DDG sucks at finding images.
Bing Chat is great, and at work we use M365, so I can easily search for work content through Bing too.
Bing Rewards are also a nice bonus.
Why talk to Bing Chat when Greg from down the hall could use a chat instead. he is lonely
I’ve been using Bing chat allot. I got the extension that lets me use it on Firefox. It’s insanely useful, and I feel like it’s getting better with time as it learns. I still use DuckDuckGo for search though, although I’ve been using search less and less as Bing chat gets better.
It’s good. The privacy implications, not so good.
I suppose it’s all a trade-off, and each of us has to try to make informed choices based on what matters most to them. I don’t think there’s a right answer.
Its better at serving unbias results as well.
Been using the Duckduckgo app for awhile now. Works fantastic, F google
Duckduckgo largely based it’s classic results on Bing.
So I guess this is an agree to OP?
I’ve been using duckduckgo for many years. So I wouldn’t know how it compares to Google results.
Yup, honestly haven’t seen much difference at all when I switched a few years ago. But thanks to this post I learned about SearX. Gonna give that try now. Curious though if using a browser like Chrome for example, would make it a pointless? That’s what drew me to duck since they have their own app.
Why would using Chrome make it pointless?
I just figured if you’re trying to avoid google then using their own browser might have some risk too. But I don’t know for sure if they still able to track anything you do on an alternative search website.
Chrome has other features and potential tracking. But those don’t make not using Google as the search engine pointless. You’re still cutting away a lot of activity.
You can compare how it does by using bangs using google in ddg:
Don’t they still provide that link at the bottom of the first page with a list of all the DMCA’d content in one convenient link (so you can be sure to avoid it)?
No, now they just say “some content has been removed” but don’t say what, who and why
I don’t believe they do that anymore, but I could be wrong.
where (at least piracy forums) is this an unpopular opinion?
