I live in a country which uses a language I don’t speak but Google defaults to regional results in spite of my language being set to English. All other engines give me really poor results (not that Google was giving good ones, the image search has really gone to shit since they started populating it with AI stuff).

    • amortized_cost@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 years ago

      DuckDuckGo 99% of the time, Google Startpage if I’m having trouble finding something.

      *Note: Startpage uses Google as their source of search result.

    • Faendol@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 years ago

      I switched to DuckDuckGo a while ago and haven’t regretted it at all. I honestly barely notice the difference. Realistically I should switch to firefox next but I’m pretty ingrainded in google chrome admittedly.

      • Nolando@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 years ago

        I made the jump a ways back, and it’s only on rare occasions that I find I need to open Brave or Chrome (whichever is installed on my machine at the time) for website compatibility.

      • mynameisnotdoug@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        Same. The heavy bias towards Microsoft-centric top hits (thanks, Bing) usually mean when I’m searching for a non-Windows tech answer I go right to !g, but otherwise it’s my default.

    • Vorticity@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been trying to switch to duckduckgo but I really struggle with the results. I appreciate the privacy angle but I just can’t seem to find what I want about 80% of the time. It’s like it just ignores parts of my query…

      • cwagner@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        2 years ago

        Is it the same way? I thought sp was just a google search proxy, DDG does their own ranking and filtering on the Bing API. Does SP do that as well?