I used google for most of my life, for the past couple months I’ve been using brave search, but I still end up using google often because google images is far better than brave search images. I’m also worried that maybe brave search isn’t the best choice. What would you guys recommend?
I use duckduckgo. It is Bing but with more privacy. You could try also searx, swisscows, startpage or qwant
does ddg not have its own search backend anymore?
nope, it was yandex + bing, now bing: https://www.searchenginemap.com/
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/
My reading is that the classic search listings are coming from Bing and the the quick answer type stuff is coming from DDGs systems.
which doesn’t an index make, more like a fetcher for specific data
I’ve been using DDG for a while but just got hit with an AI summary finally, like Brave and then Google does. It’s such a turn off. I trust the information exactly 0%. Definitely considering just using SearXNG full time now. I liked DDG a lot but I’m so fickle, it doesn’t take much for me to swap.
You can disable that. Here are two links that disable that. Add it to Firefox or Chromium through the settings.
Simple, only disables AI answers:
https://duckduckgo.com/?kbe=0&q=%25sLong, disables AI answers and ads:
https://duckduckgo.com/?kak=-1&kax=-1&kbe=0&k1=-1&q=%25sSteps to create a custom DDG search config:
https://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d&q=%sto the end, which acts as a placeholder for the browser to replace with your actual search query. Using my examplehttps://duckduckgo.com/?kae=d&q=%25sThanks for the tips but it says that it can be disabled right on the summary itself. The issue isn’t disabling it for me. It’s that the information is bad and I don’t want a search engine that thinks this is useful. Sorry for not making that more clear. That’s what I meant by me being fickle.