Google does sooo much filtering of search results I can no longer use them. They actively supress information which they deem politically controversial. I have been using duckduckgo for a few years now and I really appreciate getting a raw search result where I do the content filtering.. not to mention my privacy is more protected there. On the very rare case I don't find what I want there, adding the "bang" !g to my search will route me to google, so its no pain to dig there if needed.

I also use Duckduckgo as a default and only have to use Google maybe once per week, and then I use the !g shortcut from Duckduckgo.

"I use the !g shortcut from Duckduckgo"

This works so neatly!! Going to try duckduckgo for the next month.

There are thousands, ddg is a metasearch engine.

as an alternative: https://metager.de/

This x1000

I'll come out and say it. Bing is the best porn search engine out there.

Porn/offensive materials are always the best test of a service provider.

The trick to Bing is (on bing.com) to change your regional settings to the US. (Bing.com > burger menu > settings > Country/Region > United States (English))

This small change will greatly improve the quality of the search results.

I think a lot of this is personalization-related, too. I primarily use Bing for the rewards points. If I can't find it on Bing, only very seldom do I find it on Google.

But I've noticed on my work computer where I rarely use the browser, results are absolutely atrocious. But that's true for both.

But beyond that, I think search engine quality for anything but the top 100 websites has declined dramatically over the past ten years. Google has straight up delisted websites I used to visit that still exist, seemingly simply based on age.

>why I would want to use bing.

To search for google (which is probably the most used keyword in bing)

However Ecosia is kind of a good thing (based on bing)

https://www.ecosia.org

I've been using Ecosia for over a year now. Took about a week to get used to but I'm getting good results and if they actually do what they promise I'm doing something good for the world :)

I'm having trouble finding it on their website but I watched a regenerative agricultural guy two days ago say ecosia was giving out grants to people like himself. He had a permanent polyculture of mostly food, not trees, but it was neat.

I didn't know about this - thanks!