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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by gillytech on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:38PM (#30730392)
I'm going to second that. Since switching off Google a couple years ago I have had fewer and fewer "failed" searches which required me to go back to Google to try the search.

The more people who use Brave Search (they own their own index), the better it will become. And right now I'd say it's orders of magnitude better than DDG and the others.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by hedora on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:04AM (#30730882)
Haven't tried Brave, but I'd say DDG results are much better than Google Search.

I think it's down to personal preference or something.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by JohnFen on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:48AM (#30733038)
Right now, DDG gives me the best search results of anything that I've tried. I know people who don't get the same quality results from it as I do, though.

I'm 100% convinced that the difference comes down to how searches are formulated. At least, the people who I know that experience poor quality searches seem to enter their queries as natural-language questions rather than search terms.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by 5560675260 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @09:21AM (#30733506)
In my experience Brave is better than DDG for tech topics. But DDG so far is noticeably better for non-english content and image search, so I still use it as a fallback.
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by dantyti on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:19AM (#30732607)
> orders of magnitude better than DDG and the others

used brave as my daily search engine for a couple of months and I must say this was not the case for me. Results for global EN topics were indeed better than ddg/bing in some cases (nowhere near an order of magnitude better, though), but results for any non-EN or local queries (think searching for major websites running for 15 yrs) were extremely poor in most cases.

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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by gillytech on Saturday March 19, 2022 @11:18PM (#30739765)
Well that's a good point. I only speak English so I speak for my language. On the point of Brave vs DDG I think my main point is that Brave has its own index and DDG is based on ... Bing? ... I'm not sure. At any rate I don't think there's a comparison there.
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