Startpage or DuckDuckGo

[tribblesbestfriend@startrek.website]

So. I’ve been using startpage for a while and was wondering if it were better over DuckDuckGo ?

[emberleaf@lemmy.ml]

DuckDuckGo is generally considered the more private of the two. And StartPage had some shady issues a while back, but I can't for the life of me remember what they were...

[tribblesbestfriend@startrek.website]

Thanks I will look into that

[skribe@aussie.zone]

As an alternative for both, try searXNG.

https://searx.space/ for instances.
https://github.com/searxng/searxng for the code, you can run your own instance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG for the wikipedia article.

Personally, I find it returns much better results than anything currently available elsewhere. It reminds me of a time when search actually worked. Also, no ads and no tracking.

BTW, different instances can supply poorer results than others, so shop around to find the best one for you.

[tribblesbestfriend@startrek.website]

Incredible. I was thinking about something like that, didn’t know it exist already

[land@lemmy.ml]

I’ve been using Brave Search with Zen browser. Pretty good.

[tribblesbestfriend@startrek.website]

I’m on Firefox Edge for my cellphone, Firefox for the rest

[superkret@feddit.org]

Startpage=proxy Google
DuckDuckGo=proxy Bing

[rvtv95xbeo@sh.itjust.works]

I know it's a controversial take around these parts, but I've fallen in love with Kagi.

If I had to rank search engines by results, in my opinion/experience:

Kagi > Brave > Startpage/Google > DDG/Ecosia/Bing

Kagi/Brave/Startpage/DDG all offer privacy to some degree. I haven't really fucked with SearXNG though I'm sure its awesome.

[timroerstroem@feddit.dk]

Whatever nebulous issues one or the other may or may not have had, my personal experience is that startpage (from my understanding, basically privacy'd google) provides higher quality search results than DDG (fmu, basically privacy'd bing).

[horsefd@lemmy.world]

StartPage actually uses a combination of Google and Bing results, and on mobile it’s entirely Bing.

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

What is Firefox edge? Do you mean Firefox focus?

[nahmarcas@lemmy.ml]

Ddg have AI and its bad.
Startpage still being a google API.
I consider SP because you can run it completly without javascript

[afc1886vcc@reddthat.com]

I just tried it with a few different instances, the fact that you can search the web for files is awesome. Just one problem though, I tried searching for a few specific websites in the "general" tab and they just wouldn't show up in the results.

Maybe I'm just missing something.

[skribe@aussie.zone]

I don't believe you are. I'm not certain it's been implemented... yet.

The entire Fediverse is a work in progress. It's just better than the alternatives.

[kualk@lemm.ee]

I’ve been disappointed by many and don’t trust commercial space.

Dig around and you will find no so pleasant information on DDG and Kagi. I suspect same is true for any business backed search.

I used both and eventually run into negative information, which made me reconsider both. I started with DDG, then Kagi.

It is SearNXG all the way and there are no regrets so far. Other post on it is the best option.

[zerush@lemmy.ml]

I use several search engines. All have their + and -. As main search I use Andi, apart Startpage, Mojeek, Whoogle, Ghostery Search, Groot and some others, apart some specific ones, like Forums, Pixabay, Wolphram Alpha,, etc., I find what I'm searching for. Multisearch engines are fine, but they don't show the same results of the engines which API's they use.
Apart of privacy, it's mayby more important to avoid search engines which logs the searh history, because the filter bubble effect, causing an biased information.

[tribblesbestfriend@startrek.website]

Yes. Don’t know why I change the name

[moonpiedumplings@programming.dev]

Can't you run ddg without javascript, on their plain html version?

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/

[xnx@slrpnk.net]

Is brave search a proxy version of google or did they build their own index?