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benjojo posted 20 Sep 2024 23:12 +0000

Ok hear me out, So google search is really cooked now for technical search queries (like, they broke "'s), but... bing??? bing works fine.

I cannot believe bing is now a viable search engine based on the fact that the results coming back are not best (incorrect) guesses of my query rather than my actual query.

Like, I've not tried Kagi or DDG or w/e, but as far as I understand a lot of those things are just sparkling bing index calls, so what is the actual difference to just using bing

james@bne.social replied 20 Sep 2024 23:51 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/sG13r8Ldz1YSFSzRH9

@benjojo A Redditor called benjojogv. But at least it gives the sources!

I’ve been quite impressed overall with Kagi. There’s a free one month trial to give it a go. What’s interesting is how hard Apple makes it to change your default search engine to one not on the list. It’s almost as if they are making money from those listings. Wait…

EpicKitty@mk.catgirl.. replied 20 Sep 2024 23:19 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/HY2F1jKSsk983l7c31

@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk I’ve used bing in the past and was hooked on google for many years as it kinda became the defacto search engine. I did however switch over to DDG about 5-6 years ago and what kept me using it was the shebang system they have in place. Makes doing searches on other websites so much faster once you learn the correct prefixes and I use that every day now. I know browsers now support doing searches on websites based on the domain you entered but quickly looking something up on GitHub for example using !gh <term> is just so much faster

benjojo replied 20 Sep 2024 23:28 +0000
in reply to: https://kitty.social/notes/9yewye88gus600eb

@breadcat What does "custom search algorithms" mean in this context though, it seems apparent that nearly everything (including kagi and DDG) is using a index crawled by Bing, is bing just handing over the whole data set to DDG/Kagi? I don't think that is what is happening here