How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by DCKing on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:34AM (#21713665)

> STOP USING google SEARCH! USE DUCKDUCKGO!

I want to stop using Google, but please realize that DuckDuckGo is only competitive with Google if English is your only language (maybe even only if you're American?). There are loads and loads of people on HN for whom DDG is a poor experience.

In my experience DDG is extremely poor for localized results, especially those in other languages than English. Previously I recommended StartPage.com for my fellow Europeans, but StartPage has been bought by a shady company [1] and should not be used anymore either. I have no recommendation anymore.

[1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/

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Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by Hitton on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:14PM (#21714077)

Indeed. Few other languages have good Google search alternative - probably only Russian, Japanese, Korean, Czech, Chinese and possibly French (I would imagine that Qwant as French company would have an ok search, but I can't be sure as I don't know French good enough). I would prefer to use just one search engine, but even using Yandex for Russian searches or Baidu for Chinese feels preferable to submitting to octopus that is Google.

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Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by ljcn on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:50AM (#21713834)

> maybe even only if you're American?

Works fine in UK English too, although the "r:uk" modifier is often needed.

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Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by robin_reala on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:36PM (#21714903)

I never realised that existed. Does the r stand for region?

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Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by nvrspyx on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:41AM (#21713729)

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I have no recommendation anymore

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Maybe searx.me is an option. Although, you’re out of luck for Safari on iOS.

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Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by Kaiyou on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:47AM (#21713793)

Searx.me doesn't output any search more than half the time and gives you "google (unexpected crash: CAPTCHA required)" instead.

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Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by markosaric on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:57AM (#21713900)

How's Qwant for you? I've been using them more frequently recently. It's made in the EU (France) but as I don't search much in other languages than English I'm not sure how good they are for that.

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Re:How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a ... by middus on Thursday December 05, 2019 @11:51AM (#21713839)

Maybe ecosia?

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