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Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:16 pm to Landmass
I posted almost this exact question on the Tech Board the other day, because I've been dissatisfied by google. Not only are they not sending me many relevant results, it seems to be increasingly curating woke stuff into the results too.
BTW I used to use Alta Vista
What I'm doing for now, which seems to work- I will click on a forum listing for a result, and then browse through that forum for people posting links to other sites. I use those links to look for more results, and look for more links
At some point I tend to find a good, knowledgeable "mother" forum with lots of info, although it's almost never from the initial google search.
BTW I used to use Alta Vista
What I'm doing for now, which seems to work- I will click on a forum listing for a result, and then browse through that forum for people posting links to other sites. I use those links to look for more results, and look for more links
At some point I tend to find a good, knowledgeable "mother" forum with lots of info, although it's almost never from the initial google search.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:23 pm to NPComb
Yes. I do use brave browser as well.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:26 pm to Landmass
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Bing, I've stacked plenty of Microsoft Gift cards off of it
That's great and all but what do you use when you want to get good results?
Bing is better for image search than Google. There's an aircraft/ships forum I haunt elsewhere, and Bing consistently delivers better search results for things like that. I'll use Google when I want to read or research something.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:56 pm to TT9
Their search algorithms and indexing have all but ruined the small business model. Who'll now never see page one and they use to.
It's invasion of privacy has led, if not surpassed all others, who are attempting to try and do the same.
They have ruined YouTube with it's limited number of returns; before they acquired it you had pages of video's that met you search.
And if you're to old enough to remember before they decided to own the 1st page you'd get a dozen varied and different responses; and not just what they've narrowly decided is the proper reply.
Plus as alluded to there's no end to their monopoly and the less than can dossier me the better I like it.
It's invasion of privacy has led, if not surpassed all others, who are attempting to try and do the same.
They have ruined YouTube with it's limited number of returns; before they acquired it you had pages of video's that met you search.
And if you're to old enough to remember before they decided to own the 1st page you'd get a dozen varied and different responses; and not just what they've narrowly decided is the proper reply.
Plus as alluded to there's no end to their monopoly and the less than can dossier me the better I like it.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 11:14 pm to Long Ball Larry
Posted on 2/18/26 at 11:34 pm to Landmass
DuckDuck or Brave search with an occasional use of the search assist or AI they have available.
For different reasons they aren’t always great for finding a specific image, but I can usually find what I am looking for with one or the other. Might not be a top result.
Using their browsers with the searches they both have ways to limit YouTube ads and force play through them when using their respective browsers. Duck player mentions just limiting targeted ads from YouTube. Brave is better at it and can also limit YouTube Shorts, Playables, and other “features” of YouTube.
For different reasons they aren’t always great for finding a specific image, but I can usually find what I am looking for with one or the other. Might not be a top result.
Using their browsers with the searches they both have ways to limit YouTube ads and force play through them when using their respective browsers. Duck player mentions just limiting targeted ads from YouTube. Brave is better at it and can also limit YouTube Shorts, Playables, and other “features” of YouTube.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 7:31 am to Landmass
Switched all my defaults to duckduckgo years ago. Don’t even notice it now, just works. They don’t track you like google.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:38 pm to aib799
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Chat GPT
“Empowerment was the pitch. Dependency is the business model.”
Posted on 2/23/26 at 6:53 pm to Landmass
If I need to know something, I just ask my wife. She knows everything and is never wrong.
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