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@cwebber
I tried it for ages, but find Qwant better.
DuckDuckGo seems to use MS Bing.

@cwebber - its okay, but based in US - and despite its efforts at privacy - its still at the mercy of the demands of the current government agencies seeking info on use and users.
Better yet to find a search engine based elsewhere - say, the EU, which has much stronger privacy and security laws (even when applied upon governments) than US.
For my part, I either use Startpage or Ecosia.

@cwebber I was on duckduckgo but changed to qwant because american boicot. Qwant still have great privacy politics as far as I know.

Also ditch all chromium browsers haha

@cwebber FWIW Startpage is no AI by default & they say (!) they will keep it that way.

@cwebber if theres a massive movement away from google that could be the bubble pop

@cwebber @TimChaffee I switched to Kagi. Worth every freaking penny.

@cwebber
I did a while ago, it's so much better this way!

(For people who don't know, the full string to set is "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s")

@cwebber
Dump all Google Stock

@cwebber I’ve been using Kagi for a while and (for me) it has better results.

Plus they’re incentivized to see me as customer, not as a blob of data to sell.

Of course they have their own problems too (like bad Safari integration).

@cwebber I finally made the switch recently too. I wanted to like DuckDuckGo for years but I found the quality of their results too much of a downgrade from Google (for the kinds of searches that I do). Now I've come around to DDG, not because their results have improved, but because Google's have deteriorated

@cwebber Honestly it's pretty good. I very rarely pop in !g to double check the Google results (which are slowly degrading anyway)

@cwebber Honestly, it's been about as good as Google for a while now. Not really because it's gotten any better though