Posted on 02/11/2024 2:04:38 PM PST by FrozenAssets
Use Brave. It’s about the best.
Free Republic search engine is useless. I can never get it to work.
You sate, “Yes, it’s changed. Google was amazing when it first started.” I agree. Now I can only thank myself for selecting and creating files beginning some twenty years ago. Google is lost in the present and is practically useless for searches of an historical nature.
Try Right Dao...
No complaints from me...
This search engine partiality isn’t entirely ideological, it’s also financial. With the commercial search engines you have to pay to be first.
G**gle is da Debil and I won’t touch it.
DuckGuckGo’s results have gotten a lot less relevant over time and shows clear evidence of manipulating the results.
At the moment I’m using searX derivatives. searX is a “meta-search” engine that uses 82 different search engines, including Bing, G**gle, Reddit, Wikipedia, Yahoo, and Yandex, but it strips off your identifying information so there’s nothing that can identify you for the nosy searches to log. You can’t get the same “personalized” responses as you might get from G**gle (et Al) but neither are you allowing them to pry into your personal life and interests.
I’ve tested them head-to-head and found searX consistently turns up “better” results to my needs than DDG.
Right now Whatfinger Search (a searX “client”) is my default. I’ve used the “Add custom search engine” add-on for Firefox to make Whatfinger a 1-click search so I can use it from FF’s ‘Search’ window.
https://whatfingersearch.whatfinger.com/searx/search
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-search-engine/
That was very smart.
I wish I’d done that.
I have posted before on this Tip and Trick.
Do a standard search and note the common keywords (usually two or three words is good enough) in the headlines or first sentence of the top ten mass media articles.
Then redo the search with minus in front of those three keywords.
Btw I have noticed an improvement recently.
“Illegal immigration” used to get a bunch of “migrant” mass media stories—but now the search seems to not try to force “migrant” down my throat.
You must be new around here.....
I just installed Duck Duck Go Browser. Pared-Down, Basic, Simple, and Easy to Use
Oh no kidding. Say 20 years ago the most accurate results for a search would be on the first page, probably in the top three items.
Today it’s utter BS. Even looking for an exact specific item it may not show up at all. Seeming advertising or paid links have a priority.
And looking for something to buy at Amazon or Ebay is a real challenge. Many items are poorly described or erroneously described. That’s why I like walking into a store where I can see the product, touch it, hold it, inspect it to see if it’s what I want.
I use Quant. It’s pretty good.
Been on the net since the days when I had to dial (yes I mean dial)into a server halfway across the continent. Was using
Gopher and later Mosaic at the time. Before that it was local BBS systems. The first computer I used was time share by paper tape teletype to an IBM 360. Nextg was an IBM 1403 with an 8K ferrite core memory.
Don’t make rash assumptions without data!
What I meant... was that this question (about search engines) has been discussed MANY times on here because of bias and security.
I also preferred the web crawlers of the day (on dial-up).
Could be! My assets weren’t the only thing that got frozen last week!
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