• escapedgoat@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have for a while. But I have noticed lately that every time I search for something, it almost always only returns product pages. I don’t know if this is effective SEO or a way of DDG monetizing their search. But unfortunately I’ve been looking for alternatives just because it’s so frustrating when searching for information to get nothing back but a bunch of sites trying to sell you their product.

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      1 hour ago

      Yeah I’m not a big fan of DDG either… it’s powered by Bing so hardly surprising it isn’t great. And Microsoft isn’t any less evil than Google.

      Presearch is the best I’ve found - just a nice, basic search - but it’s a little slow and has some cryptoshit background so I’m open to alternatives. Ecosia is greenwashing bullshit afaik.

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          38 minutes ago

          It literally has an AI function lmao

          The environmental search engine has an environment-killing function that no one needs. They also partner with Google and Microsoft, both avid environment-murderers.

          But yeah sure bro, plant a few trees, that’ll offset everything I’m sure.

          And their search results are powered by Bing, so it won’t be any better than DDG anyway.